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Food, Social Change and Identity

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Editors:
  1. Cynthia Chou

    1. Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

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  2. Susanne Kerner

    1. Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  • Provides an accessible introduction to the study of food, social change and identity
  • Offers a vast historical extent of food change ranging from the 5th mill BCE to the present day
  • Presents case studies on food identity from across the world

Part of the book series: Consumption and Public Life (CUCO)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Cynthia Chou, Susanne Kerner
    Pages 1-15

  3. Ingesting the Contemporary: Food and Angst

    • Mandy Thomas
    Pages 17-36

  4. Fish, Identity, and Social Change

    • Richard Wilk
    Pages 37-55

  5. The Social Life of Food

    • Tamara L. Bray
    Pages 57-71

  6. Prejudice, Assimilation and Profit: The Peculiar History of Italian Cookery in the United States

    • Anthony F. Buccini
    Pages 73-90

  7. Narratives on an Independent Cuisine: Catalan Food as Identity in the Contemporary Independence Movement

    • Venetia Johannes
    Pages 91-120

  8. The Danish Meal Partnership: A Shortcut to a Healthier Diet

    • Claus Egeris Nielsen
    Pages 121-138

  9. Food and Identity in the Fifth mill. BCE

    • Susanne Kerner
    Pages 139-161

  10. In Search of Authenticity: The Banana Pancake Trail and Roti John

    • Cynthia Chou, Martin Platt
    Pages 163-180

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 181-188
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About this book

Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the following questions: What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening? What triggers change and how are the changes impacting identity politics? In terms of scope and organization, this book offers a vast historical extent ranging from the 5th mill BCE to the present day. In addition, it presents case studies from across the world, including Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and America. Finally, this collection of essays presents diverse perspectives and differing methodologies. It is an accessible introduction to the study of food, social change and identity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

    Cynthia Chou

  • Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Susanne Kerner

About the editors

Cynthia Chou is Professor of Anthropology, C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family Chair of Asian Studies and Director of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Iowa, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, U.K. in 1994 and was awarded in 2011 the highest Danish academic degree of dr. phil. by the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in recognition of her work on the sea nomads of Indonesia.

Susanne Kerner is Associate Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She was the director of the German Protestant Institute for Archaeology and History in Amman, Jordan until 1996. Since that time, she has directed and co-directed several excavations and surveys in Jordan from the Neolithic to the Classic periods.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Food, Social Change and Identity

  • Editors: Cynthia Chou, Susanne Kerner

  • Series Title: Consumption and Public Life

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84371-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84370-0Published: 15 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84373-1Published: 16 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84371-7Published: 14 December 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2947-8227

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-8235

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 188

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social Anthropology, Social Sciences, general, Archaeology, Food Science

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