Food Preference and Taste: Continuity and Change: 2 (Anthropology of Food & Nutrition, 2)

by Mary Douglas (Preface), Mary Douglas (Preface), Helen Macbeth (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $146.90

  Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes social and biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic. Helen Macbeth is chair of ICAF (Europe) and Honorary Research Fellow of the Anthropology Department, Oxford Brookes University.