FOOD AND CULTURE

"Fish Lady," the local vendor of raw fish, Litsvyanka, Russia (© James Waldron)

Siberia and Central Asia

Recommended -- click for detailsDorje R. 1985. Food in Tibetan Life. Prospect Books. [ethnography; food habits; cookery; Central Asia]

Glants M, Toombe JS. 1997. Food in Russian History and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [collected essays; history; Europe; Central Asia; Russia; Soviet Union]

Hudgins S. 1996. Raw Liver and More: Feasting with the Buriats of Southern Siberia. In Food on the Move: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1996, ed. H Walker, pp. 136-56 Prospect Books. [feasts; North Asia]

Recommended -- click for detailsHudgins S. 2003. Raw Liver, Singed Sheep's Head, and Boiled Stomach Pudding: Encounters with Traditional Buriat Cuisine. Sibirica: Journal of Siberian Studies:131-52. [food habits; North Asia; Russia; Siberia]

Hudgins S. 2003. A Trinity of Siberian Easter Season Meals. Anthropology of East Europe Review 21:17-26. [feasts; North Asia; Siberia]

Hudgins S. 2004. The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East. Texas A&M University Press. [feast; festivals; North Asia; Russia; Buriats]

Leonard W, Katzmarzyk P. 1994. Nutritional Ecology and Energetics of the Evenki Herders of Central Siberia. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. [ecology; North Asia; Siberia; Russia; Evenki]

Mack GR, Surina A. 2005. Food Culture in Russia and Central Asia. Greenwood. [foods; foodways; ethnic cuisines; Europe; Central Asia; Russia]

Newman JM. 1999. Tibet and Tibetan Foods. Flavor and Fortune 6:7-12. [Central Asia; Tibet]

Recommended -- click for detailsNewman JM. 2000. Mongolians and Their Cuisine. Flavor and Fortune 7:9-24. [Central Asia; Mongolia]

Saberi H. 2000. Noshe Djan: Afghan Food and Cookery. Prospect Books. [food habits; hospitality; Central Asia; Afganistan]

Tapper R, Tapper N. 1986. 'Eat This, It'll Do You a Power of Good': Food and Commensality among Durrani Pashtuns. American Ethnologist 13:62-79. [social relation; ritual; sacrifice; Muslim dietary law; Central Asia; Afghanistan]

Ziker J. 2002. Raw and Cooked in Arctic Siberia: Diet and Consumption Strategies in Socio-Ecological Perspective. Nutritional Anthropology 25:20-33. [food preparation; eating habits; North Asia; Russia; Taimyr; Dolgan; Nganasan]

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