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Informationen zum Autor Thomas M. Conroy is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Lehman College-City University of New York. Klappentext This book is a qualitative, interpretive, phenomenological, and interdisciplinary, examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Each chapter thematically focuses upon a particular food practice and on some key details of the examined practice, or on the practice's social and cultural impact. Zusammenfassung This book is a qualitative, interpretive, phenomenological, and interdisciplinary, examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Each chapter thematically focuses upon a particular food practice and on some key details of the examined practice, or on the practice’s social and cultural impact. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Food Meanings and RepresentationsChapter 1: Gagging on the Other: Television's Gross Food ChallengeChapter 2: From Bento to Blog: The Digital Culture of an Everyday Japanese MealChapter 3: Museums, Consumption and the Everyday: Encountering the Colonial "Other" through FoodChapter 4: From Smack to Cuisine: The Spatialization of Taiwanese FoodsChapter 5: Drinking Local: Sustainable Brewing, Alternative Food Networks, and the Politics of ValuationPart 2: Food Practice Case StudiesChapter 6: Both Luxurious and Ordinary: Everyday Consumption and the Marketing of Indonesian Food Products in AmericaChapter 7: Cultivating Localization through Commodity De-Fetishism: Contours of Authenticity and the Pursuit of Transparency in the Local Organic Agrarian Food MarketChapter 8: Embodied Connections: A New Wave of Urban AgricultureChapter 9: The Dilemma of Dinner: The Practice of Home Cooking in Everyday LifePart 3: Food Consumption Practices and The BodyChapter 10: The Phenomenology of Food Consumption: A Developmental ViewChapter 11: Healthy Eating on a Budget: Negotiating Tensions Between Two DiscoursesChapter 12: Fat Eats: A Phenomenology of Decadence, Food, and HealthIndexAbout the Contributors...
