Why we eat, how we eat : contemporary encounters between foods and bodies / edited by Emma-Jayne Abbots, Anna Lavis
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TextSeries: Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Limited, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xvi, 310 pages : illustrationsISBN: 9781409447252; 1409447251; 9781409447269; 140944726X; 9781409473794; 1409473791Subject(s): Food habits | Food preferences | Food | Feeding Behavior | Eating | Feeding BehaviorDDC classification: GT2850 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Makurdi Study Centre | GT2850.A34 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0193919 |
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Pt. I. Absences and presences : how we (do not) eat what (we think) we eat -- pt. II. Intimacies, estrangements and ambivalences : how eating comforts and disquiets -- pt. III. Contradictions and coexistences : what we should and should not eat -- pt. IV. Entanglements and mobilizations : the multiple sites of eating encounters
Why We Eat, How We Eat maps new terrains in thinking about relations between foods and bodies. With the central premise that food is always both symbolic and material, the volume explores the intersections of current critical debates regarding how and why individuals eat. Through a series of case studies and theoretical interludes it examines how foods and bodies both haphazardly encounter, and actively engage with, one another in ways that are simultaneously social, economic, political, biological and sensorial
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