FOOD AND CULTURE

General and Theoretical Studies,

Collected Papers, and Miscellaneous

Recommended -- click for detailsAtkins PJ, Bower IR. 2001. Food in Society: Economy, Culture, Geography. Arnold. [general survey; theoretical issues; cultural geography; political economy; global networks; social influences on consumption]

Baer-Stein T. 1999. You Eat What You Are: People, Culture and Food Traditions. Second ed. Culture Concepts. [general survey; world foodways]

Barker M. 2004. The Psychology of Food and Eating: A Fresh Approach to Theory and Method. Journal of Environmental Psychology 24(2):264-265. [psychological theory]

Recommened -- click for detailsBeardsworth A, Keil T. 1997. Sociology on the Menu. New York: Routledge. [introductory textbook; general survey]

Recommended -- click for detailsBell D, Valentine G. 1997. Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat. Routledge. [general survey; cultural geography]

Necessary Reference -- click for detailsCivitello L. 2007. Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People. Second ed. Wiley. [general survey; world foodways]

Davidson A, Saberi H, Jaine T. 2006. The Oxford Companion to Food. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. [general reference; encyclopedic entries; collected essays; foodstuffs; foodways; cuisines]

Doshi SL. 1995. Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Rawat Publications. [general survey]

Fjellstrom C. 2004. Mealtime and Meal Patterns from a Cultural Perspective. Scadinavian Journal of Nutrition 48(4):161-164. [culture; theoretical perspective; meal research; Europe; Sweden]

Flynn KC, Behrman C. 2002. Charity, Power and Entitlement Theory. Nutritional Anthropology 25(1):35-38. [hunger; social and economic theory; food sharing]

Furst E, Prattala R, Ekstrom M, et al. 1991. Palatable Worlds: Sociocultural Food Studies. Solum Forlag. [miscellaneous papers; social and cultural theory; foodways; symbols]

Recommended -- click for detailsGermov J, Williams L, eds. 2004. A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite. Oxford Univerity Press. [textbook]

Goody J. 1999. Food and Love: A Culture History of East and West. Verso. [global culture history; theoretical issues]

Grivetti LE. 1997. Social Determinants of Food Intake. Nutritional Implications of Macronutrient Substitutes. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 819:121-131. [review article; cultural nutrition]

Grivetti LE. 2000. Nutritional Geography: History and Trends. Nutritional Anthropology 23(2):1-16. [general survey; bibliography]

Harris M. 1998. Good to Eat. Waveland. [materialist theory; taboos; ecology; food system; meat eating; cannibalism]

Hetherington MM. 2002. The Physiological-Psychological Dichotomy in the Study of Food Intake. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 61(4):497-507. [appetite; food preference; pleasure; meal size; theory and method]

Himmelgreen DA. 2002. "You Are What You Eat and You Eat What You Are:" The Role of Nutritional Anthropology in Public Health Nutrition and Nutrition Education. Nutritional Anthropology 25(1):2-12. [nutritional anthropology; theory; practice]

Jerome NW, Ricci JA. 1997. Food and Nutrition Surveillance: An International Overview. The American journal of clinical nutrition 65(4):1198S-1202S. [review; nutritional assessment; developing countries; Thailand]

Katz S. 1990. An Evolutionary Theory of Cuisine. Human Nature 1(3):233-359. [theory; cultural evolution]

Khare RS, ed. 1992. Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists. State University of New York Press. [collected essays; theory; nutritional anthropology; symbol; social identity; South Asia; India]

strongly recommended -- click for detailsKhare RS. 1994. Anthropology of Food and Scholarly Perplexities. South Asian Anthropologist 15(1-2):17-23. [food studies; theoretical approaches]

Recommended -- click for detailsKittler PG, Sucher KP. 2007. Food and Culture. Fifth edition. Wadsworth Publishing. [food habits; cultural nutrition; textbook; ethnic foodways; general survey; North America; United States]

Korsmeyer C, ed. 2005. The Taste Culture Reader. Berg. [collected essays; flavors; food memories; social and cultural theory]

Lindenbaum S. 2004. Thinking About Cannibalism. Annual Review of Anthropology 33:475-498. [anthropological theory; representations of cannibalism]

MacClancy J. 1992. Consuming Culture: Why You Eat What You Eat. Holt. [general survey; food customs]

McIntosh E. 1995. American Food Habits in Historical Perspective. Praeger. [general survey; prehistory; history; change; North America; United States]

McIntosh WA. 1996. Sociologies of Food and Nutrition. Plenum Press. [general textbook]

Mendez CD. 2006. The Sociology of Food in Spain: European Infuences in Social Analyses on Eating Habits. Comparative Sociology 5:353-380. [theoretical perspectives; Europe]

Mennell S, Murcott A, Otterloo AHv. 1992. The Sociology of Food: Eating, Diet and Culture. Sage Publications. [general survey; theory; food and society; social relations; change]

Messer E, Haber B, Toomre J, et al. 2000. Culinary History. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1376-1378. Cambridge University Press. [food history; general survey; nutritional anthropology]

Milton K. 1996. Food and Diet. In The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. D Levinson, M Ember, eds. pp. 503-508. Henry Holt. [general survey]

Mintz S. 2002. Heroes Sung and Unsung. Nutritional Anthropology 25(2):3-8. [historical review; theory; anthropology of food]

Mintz SW, Du Bois CM. 2002. The Anthropology of Food and Eating. Annual Review of Anthropology 31:99-119. [general survey; theoretical pespectives]

Murcott A. 1995. Social Influences on Food Choice and Dietary Change: A Sociological Attitude. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 54(3):729-735(727). [social theory]

Passariello P. 1990. Anamolies, Analogies, and Sacred Profanities: Mary Douglas on Food and Culture, 1957-1989. Food and Foodways 4:53-71. [theory; social anthropology]

Pelto G. 1996. Nutritional Anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropolgy. D Levinson, M Ember, eds. pp. 881-883. Henry Holt and Company. [general survey]

Rappaport L. 2003. How We Eat: Appetite, Culture, and the Psychology of Food. ECW. [review; food habits; preferences; emotions; values]

Serinis G. 2008. On the Ideology of Nutritionalism. Gastronomica 8(1):39-48. [general theory; nutrition; nutritional anthropology]

Sobal J, Kettel L, Bisogni C. 1998. A Conceptual Model of the Food and Nutrition System. Social Science and Medicine 47(7):853-. [general theory; food system]

Ulijaszek SJ, Strickland SS. 1993. Nutritional Anthropology: Prospects and Perspectives. Smith-Gordon. [method and theory]

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