FOOD AND CULTURE

Mom says,"You must eat all before you can have a dessert" (© Hide Ishiura)

food sharing, commensal patterns, food and social identity

Abdullah M; Wheeler EF (1985) Seasonal Variations in the Intra-Household Distribution of Food in Bangladeshi Village. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 41:1305-1313 [social relations; family; food sharing; South Asia; Bangladesh].

Recommended -- click for detailsAguirre P (2004) Socioanthropological Aspects of Obesity in Poverty. Obesity and Poverty. A New Public Health Challenge. 1:11-22(12) [obesity; poverty; social and economic conditions; women; South America; Argentina].

Allport S (2000) The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love. Harmony Books [paleoanthropology; social relations].

Anigbo OA (1987) Commensality and Human Relationship among the Igbo. University of Nigeria Press [social relations; African; Nigeria; Igbo].

Appadurai A (1981) Gastro Politics in Hindu South Asia. American Ethnologist. 8:494-511 [social relations; power; symbolism; South Asia; India; Hindu].

Recommended -- click for detailsAppadurai A (1988) How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 30:3-24 [social relations; caste; Hindu beliefs; South Asia].

Atkins 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].

Bahloul J (1989) From a Muslim Banquet to a Jewish Seder: Foodways and Ethnicity among North African Jews. in MR Cohen; AL Udovitch (eds) Jews among Arabs: Contacts and Boundaries. Darwin, pp. 85-96 [social relations; ethnic food habits; North Africa].

Banerji C (2001) The Hour of the Goddess, Memories of Women, Food and Ritual in Bengal. Seagull Books [cookery; food habits; gender relations; religion; South Asia; India].

Banerji C (2006) Feeding the Gods: Memories of Food and Culture in Bengal. Seagull [social relations; ritual; South Asia; India; Bengal].

Barlow K (1984) The Social Context of Infant Feeding in the Murik Lakes of Papua, New Guinea. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 15:61-72 [social relations; infant feeding; Oceania; New Guinea].

Basu A; et al. (1986) Sex Bias in Intrahousehold Food Distribution: Roles of Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Characteristics. Current Anthropology. 27:536-539 [social relations, household, food sharing, India].

Bateson G; Mead M (1942) Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis [social relations; commensality; appetite expression; Indonesia; Bali].

Bennett J (1943) Food and Social Status in a Rural Society. American Sociological Review. 8:561-568 [social relations; stratification; North America; United States; Illinois].

Bishop C (1978) Cultural and Biological Adaptations to Deprivation: The Northern Ojibwa Case. in C Laughlin; I Brady (eds) Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 208-230 [famine; starvation; social relations; North American Indians; Ojibwa].

Black KW; Glasgow M (1981) Social Networks and Psychological Conditions in Diet Preferences: Gormets and Vegetarians. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 2:1-9 [social relations; eating attitudes; vegetarians].

Bliege BR; Bird D (1997) Delayed Reciprocity and Tolerated Theft. Current Anthropology. 38:49-78 [food sharing; behavioral ecology; Australia; Torres Straits; Nerian].

Bossard J (1983) Family Table Talk: An Area for Sociological Study. American Sociological Review. 18:295-301 [social relations; household; North America].

Brown EP (1991) Sex and Starvation: Famine and Three Chadian Societies. in R Downs; D Kerner; S Reyna (eds) The Political Economy of African Famine, pp. 293-321 [disaster; social class; gender; Africa; Chad].

Buckner A (1999) Keeping Kosher: Eating and Social Identity among the Jews of Denmark. Ethnology. 38:191-209 [eating habits; social relations; Europe].

Cafri G; Yamamiya Y; Brannick M, et al. (2005) The Influence of Sociocultural Factors on Body Image: A Meta-Analysis. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. 12:421-433 [psychological internalization; media; body image; body dissatisfaction; eating disorder; eating pathology; social pressures ].

Caplan P (1997) Food, Health and Identity. Routledge [collected essays; change; social relations].

Carloni AS (1971) Sex Disparities in the Distribution of Food within Rural Households. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 6:3-6 [food distribution; sharing; household; gender relations].

Cawte J (1978) Gross Stress in Small Islands: A Study in Macro-Psychiatry. in C Laughlin; I Brady (eds) Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. Columbia University Press, pp. 95-121 [famine; social relations; Oceania; Australian Aborigines].

Chakrabarty M (1996) Gender Differences in Cereal Intake: Possible Impacts of Social Group Affiliation and Season. Anthropologisher Anzeiger. 54 [dietary intake; social relations; South Asia; India].

Chen L; Huq E; d'Souza S (1981) Sex Bias in the Family Allocation of Food and Health Care in Rural Bangladesh. Population and Development Review. 7:55-70 [household relations; food sharing; South Asia; Bangladesh].

Cohen Y (1961) Food and Its Vicissitudes: A Cross-Cultural Study in Sharing and Nonsharing. in Y Cohen (ed) Social Structure and Personality. Holt, Rinehart and Winston [food sharing; enculturation].

Colson E (1979) In Good Years and Bad: Food Strategies of Self-Reliant Societies. Journal of Anthropological Research. 35:18-29 [famine; hunger; social relations; Africa].

Connell KH (1955) Marriage in Ireland after the Famine. Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. 19:82-103 [mass starvation; social relations; Europe; Ireland].

Cook PH; Wyndham AJ (1953) Patterns of Eating Behavior. Human Relations. 6:141-160 [social relations; industrial workers; lunchtime; Western culture; Australia].

Cooper E (1986) Chinese Tables Manners: You Are How You Eat. Human Organization. 45:179-184 [social relations; manners; East Asia; Story of Change -- click for detailsChina].

Counihan CM (2002) Food in the USA: A Reader. Routledge [collected essays; food habits; social identity; North America; United States].

Counihan CM (2004) Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence. Routledge [social life; family meals; gender; Europe; Italy].

Collection of Instructive Essays -- click for detailsCounihan CM; Kaplan S (1998) Food and Gender: Identity and Power. Gordon and Breach [food symbols; social relations; gender identity; body images].

Counihan CM; van Esterik P (1997) Food and Culture. Routledge [collected essays (reprints); food symbols; social relations; body image; hunger; miscellaneous].

Damerow P (1996) Food Production and Social Status as Documented in Proto-Cuneiform Texts. in P Wiessner; W Recommended -- click for detailsSchiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 149-169 [prehistory; social relations; rations and rank; Middle East; Uruk].

Day I (2000) Eat, Drink, and Be Merry -- the British at the Table, 1600-2000. Wilson [history; social life; food habits; feasting; breakfast; tea time; drinking customs; Europe; England].

Devine CSJ; Conners M (1999) Food Choice in Three Ethnic Groups: Interactions of Ideals, Identities, and Roles. Journal of Nutrition Education. 31:86- [ethnic identity; social relations; North America; United States; New York].

DeWalt K; Pelto G (1977) Food Use and Household Ecology in a Mexican Community. in TK Fitzgerald (ed) Nutrition and Anthropology in Action. van Gorcum, pp. 70-93 [social life; domestic relations; ecology; Mexico].

Dietler M (1996) Feasts and Commensal Politics in the Political Economy. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 87-125 [prehistory; feasting; social relations; Western Europe].

Dietler M; Hayden B (2001) Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on Food, Politics, and Power. Smithsonian Institution Press [collected essays; food and ritual; festival; prehistory; social relations].

Dirks R (1979) Relief Induced Agonism. Disasters. 3:195-198 [seasonal hunger; starvation; behavioral disease; social relations].

Dirks R (1980) Social Responses During Severe Food Shortage and Famine. Current Anthropology. 21:21-44 [starvation; social relations].

Recommended -- click for detailsDirks R (1987) The Black Saturnalia. University of Florida Presses [history; slave society; foodways; diet; nutrition; hunger; social life; Caribbean; West Indies].

Dirks R (1993) Famine and Disease. in KF Kiple (ed) The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-163 [physiology; social relations; history].

Dirks R (1999) Political Rights and Famine. in E Museo Nacional de Antropologia (ed) Alimentacion Y Cultura Actas Del Congreso Internacional. La Val de Onsera, pp. 711-728 [mass starvation, political relations].

Douglas M. 1984. Food in the Social Order: Studies of Food and Festivities in Three American Communities. IN Food in the Social Order. M Douglas (editor). [social relations; feasts; calendar; theory; complexity of foodways]

Douglas M (1975) The Sociology of Bread. in A Spicer (ed) Bread: Social, Nutritional, and Agricultural Aspects of Wheaten Bread. London: Elsevier [food use; social life].

Douglas M (1982) The Active Voice. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul [symbol; social anthropological theory].

Recipes plus context -- click for detailsDouglas M; Gross J (1981) Food and Culture: Measuring the Intricacy of Rule Systems. Social Science Information. 20 [social anthropological theory; method; foodways].

Dournes J (1977) Time and Menu. in J Kuper (ed) The Anthropologists Cookbook. Universe Books, pp. 161-164 [folk classification; structure; mealtimes; table manners; Southeast Asia; Vietnam; Jorai].

Downs RE; Kerner D; Reyna S (1991) The Political Economy of African Famine. Gordon and Breach [history; mass starvation; political economy; international relations; development; Africa].

DuBois C (1941) Food and Hunger in Alor. in L Spier; AI Hallowell; SS Newman (eds) Language, Culture and Personality : Essays in Memory of Edward Sapir, pp. 272-281 [social relations; sharing; anxiety; personality development; Indonesia; Alor].

DuBois C (1956) Attitudes toward Food and Hunger in Alor. in D Haring (ed) Personal Character and Cultural Milieu. Syracuse University Press, pp. 241-253 [hunger; social relations; personality; Southeast Asia; Alor].

Dwyer JT (1974) The New Vegetarians: Group Affiliation and Dietary Strictures Related to Attitudes and Life Style". Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 64:376-382 [social relations; vegetarian; taboo; North America; United States].

Dwyer JT (1974) The New Vegetarians: The Natural High? Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 65:529-536 [social relations; vegetarian; taboo; North America; United States].

Eibes-Eiblesfeldt I (1972) Love and Hate. Schocken Books [behavioral evolution; feeding behavior; social relations].

Eibl-Eibesfeldt I (1996) The Evolution of Nurturant Dominance. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 33-38 [social status; food sharing; feeding behavior; ethnology].

Elias N (1982) The Civilizing Process. Pantheon [history; manners; social life; Europe].

Engle PL (1990) Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Perspectives from Psychology. in BL Rogers; NP Schlossman (eds) Intra-Household Resource Allocation. United Nation University Press, pp. 63-79 [family; food sharing; psychology].

Evans NS; Dowler EA (1999) Food, Health and Eating among Single Homeless and Marginalized People in London. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 12:179- [social relations; diet and health; Europe; England; London].

Recommended -- click for detailsEvers S; McIntosh WA (1977) Social Indicators of Human Nutrition: Measure of Nutritional Status. Social Indicators Research. 4:185-205 [nutritional status; social indicators; measurement methods].

Fabre-Vassas C (1997) The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig. Columbia University Press [history; foodstuff; pork; taboo; social relations; religion; ritual].

Farquhar J (2002) Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China. Duke University Press [health & medicine; social identity; feasting; self & collectivity; East Asia; China].

Feeley-Harnik G (1995) Religion and Food: An Anthropological Perspective. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 63:565-582 [history; social identity; symbolism].

Feldman C (2005) Roman Taste. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. 8:7-30 [history; preference; social status; Europe; Rome].

Firth R (1959) Social Change in Tikopia. Macmillan [famine; behavioral effects; social relations; Oceania; Polynesia; Tikopia].

Fischler C (1988) Food, Self, and Identity. Social Science Information. 27:275-292 [social identity].

Flynn KC (1999) Food, Gender, and Survival among Street Adults in Mwanza, Tanzania. Food and Foodways. 8:175-201 [hunger; poverty; homeless; social relations; Africa].

Flynn KC (2005) Food, Culture, and Survival in an African City. Palgrave [gender relations; migration; exchange; sex; charity; entitlement; Africa; Tanzania; Mwanza].

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

Fortes M; Fortes SL (1936) Food in the Domestic Economy of the Tallensi. Africa. 9:237-276 [social relations; family; household; food habits; Africa; Tallensi].

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

Garine I de (1972) The Socio-Cultural Aspects of Nutrition. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 1:143-163 [social anthropological theory; foodways; nutritional anthropology].

Garine I de (1976) Food, Tradition and Prestige. in D Walcher (ed) Food, Nutrition, and Evolution: Food as an Environmental Factor in the Genesis of Human Variability, pp. 151-173 [social relations; prestige; Africa].

Garine I de (1996) Food and the Status Quest in Five African Cultures. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 193-217 [social relations; Africa; Cameroon; Massa; Mussey; Koma; Yassa; Mvae].

Garnsey P (1988) Famine and Food Supply in the Greaco-Roman World: Responses to Risk and Crisis. Cambridge University Press [history; starvation; causes; social and political responses; Europe; Greece; Rome].

Recommended -- click for detailsGermov J; Williams L (1996) The Epidemic of Dieting Women: The Need for a Sociological Approach to Food and Nutrition. Appetite. 27:97-108 [overweight; dieting; social problem].

Germov J; Williams L, editors (2004) A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite. Oxford Univerity Press [food system; fast food; genetically modified (GM) foods; food policy and politics, social identity, vegetarianism, eating disorders, social class].

Gillespie A; Achterberg C (1989) Comparison of Family Interaction Patterns Related to Food and Nutrition. Journal of American Dietetics Association. 89:509-512 [social relations; symbolic meanings].

Gittelsohn J (1991) Opening the Box: Intrahousehold Food Allocation in Rural Nepal. Social Science and Medicine. 33:1141-1154 [food sharing; distribution; family relations; South Asia; Nepal].

Goodman D; Redclift M (1991) Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology, and Culture. Routledge [Ecology; social relations; change; nutrition; food habits].

Goody J (1982) Cooking, Cuisine and Class. Cambridge University Press [social and cultural theory; food systems; food habits; change; social relations; stratification].

Recommended -- click for detailsGraham A (1983) Let's Eat!" Committment and Communion in Cooperative Households". in M Jones (ed) Foodways and Eating Habits. Folklore Society of California [social relations; feast; secular communion; North America; United States].

Graves T (2002) Bread and Oil: Majorcan Culture's Last Stand. University of Wisconsin [foodways; social life; cookery; Europe; Spain; Majorca].

Greene L (1977) Hyperendemic Goiter, Cretinism and Social Organization in Highland Ecuador. in a Greene (ed) Malnutrition, Behavior, and Social Organization. New York: Academic Press, pp. 55-94- [malnutrition; disease; social relations; South America; Ecuador].

Greene L (1980) Social and Biological Predictors of Physical Growth and Neurological Development in an Area Where Iodine and Protein-Energy Malnutrition Are Endemic. in LS Greene; FE Johnston (eds) Social and Biological Predictors of Nutritional Status. Academic Press, pp. 223-256- [malnutrition; social relations; South America; Ecuador].

Gross R; Dresrusse G (1996) Nutritional Security and the Status Quest in Developing Countries. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 263-275 [social relations; identity and nutritional practices].

Groth MV; Fagt S; Brondsted L (2001) Social Determinants of Dietary Habits in Denmark. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 55:959-966 [social relations; Europe].

Guerron-Montero C; Moreno-Black G (2001) Household Structure and Dietary Patterns in the Afro-Ecuadorian Highlands. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 22:23-30 [social relations, domestic; diet; South America; Ecuador; Afro-Ecuadorian].

Gurven M; Hill K; Lyles R (2000) Food Transfers among Hiwi Foragers of Venezuela: Tests of Reciprocity. Human Ecology. 28:171- [social relations; exchange; South America; Venezuela; Hiwi].

Hanchett S (1975) Hindu Potlatches: Ceremonial Reciprocity and Prestige in Karnataka. in HE Ullrich (ed) Competition and Modernization in South Asia. Abhinav, pp. 27-59 [feasts; social relations; prestige; South Asia; India].

Hansen A (1986) Coping with Famine, Drought, and War in Sub-Saharan Africa: Natural Disasters and Cultural Responses. Studies in Third World Societies. 36:227-254 [poverty; disaster; mass starvation; indigenous coping strategies; social responses; Africa].

Harper E (1964) Ritual Pollution as an Integrator of Caste and Religion. in E Harper (ed) Religion in South Asia [social relations; caste; exchange; pollution; taboo; South Asia; India].

Harrison GG (1975) Food Waste Behavior in an Urban Population. Journal of Nutrition Education. 7:13-16 [urban society; food system; waste; disposal; North America; United States].

Hartog APd (1972) Unequal Distribution of Food within the Household. FAO Nutrition Newsletter. 10:8-17 [social relations; distribution; household].

Hawkes K (1991) Showing Off: Tests of a Hypothesis About Men's Foraging Goals. Ethnology and Sociobiology. 2:29-54 [food sharing; human evolution; behavioral ecology; hunter-gatherer; South America; Paraguay; Ache].

Hayden B (1996) Feasting in Prehistoric and Traditional Societies. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 127-147 [feasts and celebrations; social relations; archaeology; ethnology].

Hendry J (1990) Food as Social Nutrition. in M Chapman; H Macbeth (eds) Food for Humanity: Cross Disciplinary Readings. Center for the sciences of food and nutrition, Oxford Polytechnic [social relations; East Asia; Japan].

Holmberg A (1950) Nomads of the Long Bow [food shortage; hunger; social relations; South American Indians; Siriono].

Recommended -- click for detailsHoltzman J (2001) The Food of Elders, The "Ration" Of Women: Brewing, Gender, and Domestic Processes among the Samburu of Northern Kenya. American Anthropologist. 104:1041-1058 [foodstuff; beer; gender; social relations; Africa].

Recommended collection -- click for detailsHoward M; Millard A (1997) Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro. Routledge [child malnutrition; poverty; social relations; Africa; Tanzania; Chagga].

Hubert A (1997) Choices of Food and Cuisine in the Concept of Social Space among the Yao of Thailand. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 167-174 [food preferences; social relations; spatial meaning; meal pattern; Southeast Asia].

Hupkens C (2000) Social Class Differences in Food Consumption: The Explanatory Value of Permissiveness and Health and Cost Considerations. European Journal of Public Health. 10:108-113 [social relations; eating habits; food costs; middle class; lower class; child nutrition; Europe; Netherlands; Belgium; Germany].

Huss-Ashmore R; Katz S (1989) African Food Systems in Crisis, Part One: Microperspectives. Gordon and Breach [famine; disaster; seasonal hunger; ecology; social relations; Africa].

Huss-Ashmore R; Katz S (1991) African Food Systems in Crisis, Part Two: Contending with Change. Gordon and Breach [famine; disaster; seasonal hunger; ecology; social relations; Africa].

Inness SA (2000) Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture. University of Iowa Press [history; gender relations; kitchen; appliances; cookery; cookery lessons; North America; United States].

Inness SA (2001) Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, Race. University of Pennsylvania Press [collected essays; history; women's roles; gender relations; family; North America; United States].

Insight Media (2001) The Way to Eat: What Food Means. in I Media (ed) Anthropology of Food. Insight Media [nutrition; meaning; social life].

Jarvenpa R (1999) Bush Food/Country Food/Town Food: Power, Meaning and Dietary Transformation in Three Societies. in E Museo Nacional de Antropologia (ed) Alimentacion Y Cultura Actas Del Congreso Internacional, Vol Ii 1998. La Val de Onsera, pp. 729-748- [change; social meaning; North American Indians; Chipewyan (Dene); Europe; Finland; Central America; Costa Rica; Terraba].

Jerome NW (1974) Socio-Cultural Issues Concerning Nutrition in Childhood and Adolescence. Journal of the National Medical Association. 66:355-357 [child nutrition; social involvements].

Johnson O (1980) The Social Context of Intimacy and Avoidance: A Videotape Study of Machiguenga Meals. Ethnology. 14:353-366 [social relations; commensality; South American Indian; Machiguenga].

Recommended -- click for detailsJohnsson M (1988) Food and Culture among the Bolivian Aymara. Uppsala University Press [social relations; foodways; diet; South American Indian; Bolivia; Aymara].

Jolles CZ (2002) Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community. University of Washington Press [subsistance; social relations; food system; North American Indian].

Well Regarded -- click for detailsJoseph FG (1981) Commentary: Influence of Development Factors on Nutritional Patterns in the Solomon Islands. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 10:187-191- [social development and culture change; Oceania; Solomon Islands].

Kahn M (1986) Always Hungry, Never Greedy. Waveland [symbolism; appetite expression; social relations; sharing; Oceania; New Guinea].

Kaiser LaKD (1991) Household Economic Strategies, Food Resource Allocation, and Intrahousehold Patterns of Dietary Intake in Rural Mexico. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 27:123-145- [household; food sharing; distribution (allocation); dietary intake; Middle America; Mexico].

Kandel RF; Pelto G (1980) The Health Food Movement: Social Revitalization of Alternative Health Maintenance System. in NW Jerome; RF Kandel; GH Pelto (eds) Nutritional Anthropology. Pleasantville: Redgrave, pp. 327-363- [food preference; categorization; health food; social movement; revitalization; North America; United States].

Kaplan H; Hill K (1985) Food Sharing among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses. Current Anthropology. 26:223-246 [social relations; human evolution; behavioral ecology; South America; Paraguay].

Kearney M (1972) The Winds of Ixtepeji. New York [foodways; diet; food sharing; drinking patterns; Mexico; Zapotec].

Kennedy E; Haddad L (2000) The Nutrition of Women in the Developing World. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1439-1443 [nutritional anthropology; maternal, infant nutrition; household relations].

Kerr RB (2005) Food Security in Northern Malawi: Gender, Kinship Relations, and Entitlements in Historical Context. Journal of Southern African Studies. 31:53-74 [food habits; gender relations; household organization; Africa; Ekwendeni; Tumbuka-speakers; Ngoni].

Khare RS (1976) The Hindu Hearth and Home. Vikas Publishing House [symbol; commensal relations; nutritional anthropology; South Asia; India].

Khare RS (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].

Klopfer L (1993) Padang Restaurants: Creating "Ethnic" Cuisine in Indonesia. Food and Foodways. 5:293-304 [social identity; ethnicity; change; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Sumatra].

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

Krondl M; Lau D (1983) Social Determinants in Human Food Selection. in LM Baker (ed) The Psychobiology of Human Food Selection. AVI, pp. 139-151 [food selection; social relations].

Kucera B; McIntosh WA (1991) Family Size as a Determinant of Children's Dietary Intake. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 25:1-12 [interhousehold food allocation; family size; sharing; children].

Lancaster J (1978) Carrying and Sharing. Human Nature. [human evolution; social behavior].

Laughlin C, Jr. (1978) Adaptation and Exchange in So: A Diachronic Study of Deprivation. in C Laughlin, Jr.; I Brady (eds) Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. Columbia University Press, pp. 76-94 [social relations; disaster; hunger; economic exchange; Africa; Uganda; So].

Lee R (1969) Eating Christmas in the Kalahari. Natural History. 78:14-22 [social relations; food giving; sharing; Africa; Kung San].

Lehmann G (2003) The British Housewife: Cookery Books, Cooking and Society in 18th-Century Britain. Prospect Books [history; cookery; table manners; meals; social relations; social class; anotated bibliography; Europe].

Leitch A (2003) Slow Food and the Politics of Pork Fat: Italian Food and European Identity. Ethnos. 68:437-462 [social identity; social movements; consumption; Europe; Italy].

Lemonnier P (1996) Food, Competition, and the Status of Food in New Guinea. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 219-234 [social relations; pig feasts; Oceania].

Leonard W; Thomas RB (1989) Biosocial Responses to Seasonal Food Stress in Highland Peru. Human Biology. 61:65-85 [ecology; physiology; social relations; hunger; South America; Peru].

Levenstein HA (1988) Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet. Oxford University Press [history; social class; dietary change; North America; United States].

Lockett C; Calvert C; Grivetti L (2000) Energy and Micronutrient Composition of Dietary and Medicinal Wild Plants Consumed During Drought: Study of Rural Fulani, Northeastern Nigeria. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 51:195-208 [famine; food species; vegetable foraging; social conditions; Africa].

Lockwood Y; Lockwood W (1991) Pasties in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: Foodways, Interethnic Relations, and Regionalism. in S Stern; JA Recommended collection -- click for detailsCicala (eds) Creative Ethnicity: Symbols and Stragtegies of Contemporary Ethnic Life. Utah State Press [foodways; foodstuffs; social identity; ethnicity; North America; United States; Michigan (Upper Peninsula)].

Macbeth H; Green A (1997) Nationality and Food Preferences in the Cerdanya Valley, Eastern Pyrennes. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 139-154 [social identity; nationality; food habits; Europe; France; Spain].

Mackintosh M (1989) Gender, Class, and Rural Transition: Agribusiness and the Food Crisis in Senegal. ZED Books [hunger; gender relations; development; agribusiness; Africa; Senegal].

Mallery G (1888) Manners and Meals. American Anthropologist. 1:193-207 [history; social relations; etiquette; foodways].

Manderson L (1981) Traditional Food Beliefs and Traditional Life Events in Peninsular Malaysia. Social Science Information. 20:947-975 [beliefs; social relations; Southeast Asia; Malaysia].

Marriott M (1964) Caste Ranking and Food Transactions: A Matrix Analysis. in M M Singer; B Cohn (eds) Structure and Change in Indian Society [social relations; caste; exchange; pollution; South Asia; India].

Mars L (1997) Food and Disharmony: Commensality among Jews. Food and Foodways. 7:189-202 [commensal relations; conflict; ritual; Jews].

Marshall L (1961) Sharing, Talking, and Giving: Relief of Social Tensions among Kung Bushmen. Africa. 31:231-249 [social relations; sharing; giving; Africa; Kung San].

Marshall LB (1984) Wage Employment and Infant Feeding: A Papua New Guinea Case. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 14:170-190 [economic and social change; infant feeding; Oceanian; Papua New Guinea].

Mason L (2000) Food and the Rites of Passage [collected papers; history; life crisis; ritual; feasts; social life; Europe; England; Ireland].

Mastria MR (2002) Ethnicity and Eating Disorders. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. 19:59-78 [social identity; body image; ethnic minorities; North America; United States].

Matos Viegas Sd (2003) Eating with Your Favorite Mother: Time and Sociality in a Brazilian Amerindian Community. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society. 9:21-38 [social relations; parent-child bond; food and kinship; Bahia; Caboclo].

Mayer A (1960) Caste and Kinship in Central India [social relations; caste; exhange; pollution; South Asia].

McCullough A; Kirksey A; Wachs TD (1990) Vitamin B Status of Egyptian Mothers: Relation to Infant Behavior and and Maternal-Infant Interaction. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 51:108- [nutritional status; mother-infant behavior; social interaction; Africa; Egypt].

McDonaugh C (1997) Breaking the Rules: Changes in Food Acceptability among the Tharu of Nepal. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 155-166 [change; social relations; food use; buffalo meat; South Asia].

Recommended -- click for detailsMcIntosh W; Zey M (1989) Women as Gatekeepers of Food Consumption: A Sociological Critique. Food and Foodways. 3:140-153 [history; change; women; domestic and social relations; social theory].

McIntosh WA (1996) Sociologies of Food and Nutrition. Plenum Press [social relations; food customs and social organization; food distribution; famine; body image; social problems].

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

Menzies I (1970) Psychosocial Aspects of Eating. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 14:223-227 [symbolism; social relations; eating habits].

Recommended -- click for detailsMesser E (1990) Intra-Household Allocation of Resources: Perspectives from Anthropology. in BL Rogers; NP Schlossman (eds) Intra-Household Resource Allocation. United Nations University, pp. 51-62 [intra-household allocation; food sharing; social relations].

Meyers M (2001) A Bite Off Mama's Plate: Mothers' and Daughters' Connections through Food. Bergin and Garvey [social relations; mother-daughter; food-related work; North America].

Murcott A (1995) Social Influences on Food Choice and Dietary Change: A Sociological Attitude. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 54:729-735(7) [social theory].

Murcott A (2002) Nutrition and Inequalities. European Journal of Public Health. 12:203-207 [inequalities; nutrition; public understandings; social relations; taste].

Negash A; Niehof A (2004) The Significance of Enset Culture and Biodiversity for Rural Household Food and Livelihood Security in Recommended -- click for detailsSouthwestern Ethiopia. Agriculture and Human Values. 2004:1-61 [ecology; biodiversity; food species, enset; food security; social relations; gender; household; livelihood; Africa].

Neuhaus J (2002) Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America. Johns Hopkins University Press [history; cookbooks; gender relations; North America; United States].

Recommended -- click for detailsOhnuki-Tierney E (1993) Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time. Princeton University Press [social identity; food symbols and metaphors; East Asia].

Ohnuki-Tierney E (1997) McDonald's in Japan: Changing Manners and Etiquette. in J Watson (ed) Golden Arches East: Mcdonald's in East Asia. Stanford University Press [change; eating manners; East Asia].

Orlove BS (1997) Meat and Strength: The Moral Economy of a Food Riot. Cultural Anthropology. 12:234-268 [social relations; political conflict; food prices; South America; Chile].

Owen S (1973) Introducing Children to Food and Table Manners in Java. Food Culture and History. 1:61-73 [attitudes toward eating; manners; Southeast Asia; Java].

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].

Important Collection -- click for detailsPelto G (1984) Intrahousehold Food Distribution Patterns. in PL White; N Selvey (eds) Malnutrition: Determinants and Consequences. A R Liss, Inc, pp. 285-293 [food sharing; intra-household distribution].

Pelto G (1987) Social Class and Diet in Contemporary Mexico. in M Harris; E Ross (eds) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press, pp. 517-540- [social organization; class and diet; Middle America; Mexico].

Recommended -- click for detailsPilcher J (1996) Tamales or Timbales: Cuisine and the Formation of Mexican Nation Identity. Americas. 53:2- [social identity; Latin America; Mexico].

Pilcher J (1998) Que Vivan Los Tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity. University of New Mexico Press [history; social identity (gender, class, race); North America; Mexico].

Poggie JJ (1995) Food Resource Periodicity and Cooperation Values: A Cross-Cultural Consideration. Cross-cultural Research. 29:276-296 [seasonal hunger; social relations; sharing].

Pollock DK (1985) Food and Sexual Identity among the Culina. Food and Foodways. 1:25-42 [social relations; division of labor; South America; Brazil; Amazon].

Powdermaker H (1932) Feast in New Ireland: The Social Function of Eating. American Anthropologist. 34:236-247 [feast; social relations; Oceania; New Ireland].

Powers W; Powers MNM (1984) Metaphysical Aspects of an Oglala Food System. in M Douglas (ed) Food in the Social Order. Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 40-96 [social relations; symbols and meaning; North American Indians; Oglala Souix].

Prindle P (1979) Peasant Society and Famine: A Nepalese Example. Ethnology. 18:49-60 [famine; social relations; South Asia; Nepal].

Prosterman L (1983) Food and Alliance at the County Fair. Folklore Society of California [social relations; identity; North America: United States].

Quandt SA; Rao P (1999) Hunger and Food Security among Older Adults in a Rural Community. Human Organization. 58:28-35 [life course; nutrition and health; social relations; poverty; North America; United States; Kentucky].

Quandt SA; Vitolins MZ; DeWalt KM, et al. (1997) Meal Patterns of Older Adults in Rural Communities: Life Course Analysis and Implications for Nutrition. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 16:152-171 [nutritional anthropology; life course; social relations; malnutrition; North America; United States; Kentucky].

Raspa R (1984) Exotic Foods among Italian-Americans in Mormon Utah: Food as Nostalgic Enactment of Identity. in LK Brown; K Mussell (eds) Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity. University of Tennessee Press, pp. 185-194- [foodways; social identity; North America; Utah; Italian-Americans; Mormons].

Reichel-Dolmatoff G; Reichel-Dolmatoff A (1961) The People of Aritama: The Cultural Personality of a Columbian Mestizo Village [social relations; personality; South America; Columbia; mestizo].

Reiter E (1992) Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan into the Fryer. Queen's University Press [food processing; fast food; food industry and trade; social relations; North America; Canada].

Richards A (1939) Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia. Lit Verlag [social relations, diet, food habits; Africa; Bemba].

Richards A (1948) Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe. Routledge [social relations; food habits; Africa; Bantu-speaking tribes].

Richardson K (2003) Vegemite, Soldiers, and Rosy Cheeks. Gastronomica. 3:60-62 [foodstuff; social identity; Australia].

Classic Ethnography -- click for detailsRoos E; Lahelma E; Pietinen P (1998) Gender, Socioeconomic Status and Family Status as Determinants of Food Behavior. Social Science and Medicine. 46:1519- [social relations, food habits].

Rosman A; Rubel PG (1971) Feasting with Mine Enemy: Rank and Exchange among Northwest Coast Societies [social relations; feasting; conflict; fighting with food; exchange; North American Indian; Northwest Coast].

Rozin P (1988) Social Learning About Foods by Humans. in T Zentall; BG Galef, Jr. (eds) Social Learning: Psychological and Biological Perspectives, pp. 165-187 [social relations; food habit acquisition].

Rozin P; Siegal M (2003) Vegemite as a Marker of National Identity. Gastronomica. 3:63-67 [social identity; Australia].

Sahlins M (1972) Stone Age Economics [social relations; reciprocity; redistribution; band society; tribal society].

Schacter S (1959) The Psychology of Affiliation: Experimental Studies of the Sources of Gregariousness. Stanford University Press [hunger; social relations].

Schiefenhovel W; Bell-Krannhals I (1996) Of Harvests and Hierarchies: Securing Food and Social Position in the Trobriand Islands. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 235-251 [social relations; food gifts and sharing; Oceania].

Schieffelin E (1976) The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancer [symbolism; social relations; fighting with food; Oceania; New Guinea].

Schmied V; Lupton D (2001) Blurring the Boundaries: Breastfeeding and Maternal Subjectivity. Sociology of Health and Illness. 23:234-250 [infant feeding; social relations; mother-infant bond; Australia].

Schneider DM (1957) Typhoons on Yap. Human Organization. 16:10-15 [starvation; disaster response; social relations; Oceania; Micronesia; Yap].

Scholliers P (2001) Food, Drink and Identity: Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages. Berg [collected essays; history; social identity; symbol and meaning; Europe].

Scott EM (2001) Food and Social Relations at Nina Plantation. American Anthropologist. 103:671-691 [history; archaeology; social relations; North America; Louisiana; French; Anglo-American; African-American].

Scott S; Duncan CJ (1999) Nutrition, Fertility, and Steady-State Population Dynamics in a Pre-Industrial Community in Penrith, Northern England. Journal of Biosocial Science. 31:71-87 [history; maternal nutrition; infant mortality; social class; United Kingdom].

Scott S; Duncan CJ (2000) Interacting Effects of Nutrition and Social Class Differentials on Fertility and Infant Mortality in a Pre-Industrial Population. Population Studies. 54:71-87 [history; maternal & infant nutrition; social class; United Kingdom].

Seaton R (1962) Hunger in Groups: An Arctic Experiment. Quartermaster Food and Container Institute, United States Army [starvation; behavior; social relations].

Senaur B (1988) Determinants of the Intrahousehold Allocation of Food in the Rural Philippines. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 70:170-180 [social relations; household; food distribution; Southeast Asia; Philippines].

Shack D (1969) Nutritional Processes and Personality Development among the Gurage of Ethiopia. Ethnology. 8:292-300 [social relations; childrearing; personality; Africa; Ethiopia; Gurage].

Sharman A; Theophano J; Curtis K, et al. (1991) Diet and Domestic Life in Society. Temple University Press [miscellaneous papers; diet; domestic life; social relations; research and public policy; case studies].

Shortridge B; Shortridge J (1998) The Taste of American Place: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods. Rowan and Littlefield [collected essays; foodways; geography; social identity; North America; United States].

Important Reading -- click for detailsSimon D; Adams AM; Madhavan S (2002) Women's Social Power: Child Nutrition and Poverty in Mali. Journal of Biosocial Science. 34:193-213 [child nutrition; gender relations; social status; Africa; Fulbe].

Sobal J; Mauer D, editors (1995) Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness. Aldine de Gruyter [collected essays; obesity; social meaning; body image].

Sobal J; Nelson MK (2003) Commensal Eating Patterns: A Community Study. Appetite. 41:181-190 [social relations; family; survey data; North America; United States].

Speth J (1987) Seasonality; Resource Stress, and Food Sharing in So-Called Egalitarian" Foraging Societies". Journal of Archaeological Science. 14:13-29 [seasonal hunger; food sharing; hunter-gatherers; foraging peoples].

Steckel RH (2005) Health and Nutrition in the Pre-Industrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe. Living Standards in the Past. 1:227-255 [skeletal remains; nutrition; stature; health; climate; living standards; social inequality; urbanization; Europe; Middle Ages].

Steelman V (1974) The Cultural Context of Food: A Study of Food Habits and Their Social Significance in Selected Areas of Louisiana. Louisiana State University Center for Agricultural Sciences and Rural Development [food habits; social meaning; North America; United States; Louisiana].

Tames R (2003) Feeding London: A Taste of History. Phillimore [history; markets; eating places; diet; social conditions; social class; Europe; England].

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].

Recommended -- click for detailsTapper R; Zubaida S A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East. Palgrave [collected essays; history; eating habits; cookery; social relations; gender; class; community; Middle East].

Tibbott SM (2002) Domestic Life in Wales. University of Wales Press [foodways; diet; cookery; social relations; Europe; United Kingdom; Wales].

Tilly LA (1983) Food Entitlement, Famine, and Conflict. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 14:333-349 [history; famine; social relations; Europe; England; France].

Toomey P (1992) Mountain of Food, Mountain of Love: Ritual Inversion of the Annakuta Feast at Mount Govardhan. in RS Khare (ed) Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists. State University of New York Press, pp. 117-145 [feasts; social relations; symbol; ritual; South Asia; Northern India; Braj].

Trankell IB (1995) Cooking, Care, and Domestication: A Culinary Ethnography of the Tai Yong, Northern Thailand. Uppsala University Press [food categories; processing; gender relations; ritual and meaing; Southeast Asia].

Traphagen J; K. rL (2002) Fast Food and Intergenerational Commensality in Japan: New Styles and Old Patterns. Ethnology. 41:119-134 [social relations; fast food; East Asia].

Recommended collection -- click for detailsTuchman G; Levine HG (1993) New York Jews and Chinese Food: The Social Construction of an Ethnic Pattern. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 22:362-407 [social identity; ethnicity; North America; United States].

Terrific Ethnography -- click for detailsTurmo IG (1997) The Pathways of Taste: The West Andalucian Case. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 115-126 [food choice; ecology; social relations; Europe; Spain; Seville; Cadiz; Huelva].

Turnbull C (1972) The Mountain People. Simon and Schuster [famine; social relations; Africa; Uganda; Ik].

Turnbull C (1978) Rethinking the Ik: A Functional Non-Social System. in C Laughlin; I Brady (eds) Extinction and Survival in Human Populations. Columbia University Press, pp. 49-75 [famine; social relations; Africa; Uganda; Ik].

Tuzin D (1972) Yam Symbolism in the Sepik: An Interpretative Account. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 28:230-254 [symbolism; social relations; sex; Oceania; New Guinea].

Valentine G (1999) Eating In: Home, Consumption, and Identity. The Sociological Review. 47:491- [commensal relations; social identity].

Recommended -- click for detailsVan den Berghe P (1984) Ethnic Cuisine: Culture in Nature. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 7:387-397 [behavioral evolution; food sharing; ethnic identity].

Visser M (1991) The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners. Grove Weidenfeld [history; table manners; Europe].

Voss J (1987) The Politics of Pork and the Rituals of Rice: Redistributive Feasting and Commodity Circulation in Northern Luzon, Philippines. in J Clammer (ed) Beyond the New Economic Anthropology. Macmillan [social relations; food sharing; feasting; symbolic meaning; Southeast Asia; Philippines; Luzon].

Walker H (2001) Food and Memory. Prospect Books [collected papers; history; folklore; food and recollection; social values].

Walker H (2002) The Meal. Prospect Books [collected papers; history; sociology; ethnology; dinning; social aspects; feasting].

Warde A (1997) Consumption, Food and Taste: Culinary Antinomies and Commodity Culture. Sage [food selection; determinants of taste; social relations; Europe; United Kingdom].

Warde A; Marten L; Olsen W (1999) Consumption Ahd the Problem of Variety: Cultural Omnivorousness, Social Distinction and Dining Out. Sociology. 33:105-127 [restaurants; social identity; symbol and meaning; Europe; England; London; Bristol; Preston].

Weismantel MJ (1988) Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes. Waveland [symbolism; social relations; cultural change; South America; Ecuador; Zumbagua].

White D (1992) You Are What You Eat: The Anomalous Status of Dog-Cookers in Hindu. in RS Khare (ed) Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas Recommended -- click for detailsand Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists. State of New York Press, pp. 53-93 [Hindu food law; social relations; social status; symbol; myth; South Asia; India].

Whitehead H (2000) Food Rules: Hunting, Sharing, and Tabooing Game in Papua New Guinea. University of Michigan Press [social relations; sharing; gender; taboo; Oceania; Papua New Guinea; Seltaman].

Whitehead TL (1984) Sociocultural Dynamics and Food Habits in a Southern Community. in M Douglas (ed) Food in the Social Order. Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 97-142 [food habits; social relations; North America; South Carolina; African Americans].

Wiessner P (1996) Leveling the Hunter: Constraints on the Status Quest in Foraging Societies. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest, pp. 171-191 [social relations; food sharing].

Wiessner P; Schiefenhovel W (1996) Food and the Status Quest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Berghahn [collected papers; social relations; primatology; ethology; social evolution; prehistory; ethnology].

Wilk RR (1999) "Real Belizean Food": Building Local Identity in the Transnational Caribbean. American Anthropologist. 101:244-255 [social relations; colonialism; class; modernization; Caribbean; Belize].

Williams S (1985) Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America. Pantheon [social history; feasting; North America; United States].

Wilson C (1986) Social and Nutritional Context Of "Ethnic Foods:" Malay Examples. in L Manderson (ed) Shared Wealth and Symbol: Food, Culture and Society in Oceania. Cambridge University Press [social relations; diet; infant feeding; Southeast Asia; Malaysia].

Witt D (1999) Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of Us Identity. Oxford University Press [soul food; social identity; North America; United States; African Americans].

Wood R (1995) The Sociology of the Meal. Columbia University Press [social relations].

Wu DYH; Tan CB (2001) Changing Chinese Foodways in Asia. Chinese University Press [collected essays; food habits; change; religion; meaning; Chinese social identity; East Asia; Southeast Asia].

Wurgaft BA (2003) Starbucks and Rootless Cosmopolitanism. Gastronomica. 3:71-75 [social change; coffee shops; neighborhood and community; North America; United States; Boston].

Yang MM (1994) Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China. Cornell University Press [social relations; feasts; East Asia; China].

Young M (1971) Fighting with Food [social relations; famine; seasonal hunger; conflict; fighting with food; appetite expression; Oceania; New Guinea; Goodenough Island].

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