Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past

Mintz, Sidney

ISBN 10: 0807046299 / ISBN 13: 9780807046296

Edité par Beacon Press, 1997

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Synopsis :

A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.

Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.

À propos de l?auteur: Sidney W. Mintz, author of Worker in the Cane, Carribbean Transformations, and Sweetness and Power is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions ...
Éditeur : Beacon Press
Date d'édition : 1997
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Good