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Pure Food Published February 2026 Pure Food Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives Collinson, P. & Macbeth, H. (eds)

Food purity and nutrition has inter-disciplinary roots in anthropological, ethnological, evolutionary, psychological and applied perspectives. Pure Food presents the theoretical and cross-cultural aspects of adopting food purity. It demonstrates variations and similarities in diverse cultural beliefs, behaviours and practices in different societies that define the pure food mindset.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb £27.95 Edible People Forthcoming September 2026 Edible People The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh Siefkes, C.

While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to slavery: the fact that in some societies slaves and persons captured in slave raids could be, and were, killed and eaten. This book explores these largely forgotten practices and ignored connections.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Food Connections Forthcoming August 2026 Food Connections Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration Abranches, M.

Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders andconsumers and a wide range of small intermediaries that operate in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Wine Is Our Bread Published April 2024 Wine Is Our Bread Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking Ana, D.

Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country’s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb £15.95 Bigger Fish to Fry Published September 2023 Bigger Fish to Fry A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples Sutton, D. E.

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis, with examples from the author's fieldwork in Greece.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb £23.95 Matsutake Worlds Published July 2021 Matsutake Worlds Faier, L. & Hathaway, M. J. (eds)

Matsutake Worlds explores matsutake mushrooms through the lens of multispecies encounters, to explore the mushroom’s success on the world stage. This success cannot be accounted for by any one cultural or economic process—rather, the matsutake has flourished due to many different processes, culminating in the culinary institution we know today.

Subjects: Sociology Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb £23.95 Risk on the Table Published November 2024 Risk on the Table Food Production, Health, and the Environment Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)

From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between policymakers’ decisions and cultural notions of “pure” food.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Food & Nutrition Sustainable Development Goals

Pb £31.95 Nourishing Life Published October 2024 Nourishing Life Foodways and Humanity in an African Town Huhn, A.

In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb £27.95 Nourishing the Nation Published February 2022 Nourishing the Nation Food as National Identity in Catalonia Johannes, V.

Provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia, using an essential, everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb £27.95 Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century Published March 2023 Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives Collinson, P., Young, I., Antal, L., & Macbeth, H. (eds)

Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Pb £27.95 Burgundy Published March 2020 Burgundy The Global Story of Terroir Demossier, M.

Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines and demystifies the terroir ideology to provide a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept in Burgundy, raising important questions about the future of quality wine in a global era.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Cultural Studies (General)

Pb £19.95 From Clans to Co-ops Published January 2023 From Clans to Co-ops Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily Rakopoulos, T.

From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives through antimafia transformation of landholdings. The volume is the first monograph on Sicily’s rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism.
 

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Food & Nutrition

Pb £15.95 Food Culture Published September 2019 Food Culture Anthropology, Linguistics and Food Studies Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition

Pb £27.95 Food Health Published September 2019 Food Health Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

This volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming related to food and nutrition using anthropological best practices.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition

Pb £27.95 Food Research Published September 2019 Food Research Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Archaeology

Pb £27.95 Re-Orienting Cuisine Published September 2018 Re-orienting Cuisine East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century Kim, K. O. (ed)

Foods are changed by those who produce and supply them, and also by those who consume them. The contributors of this volume have expanded the discussion of food to include its social and cultural meanings and functions, thereby using it as a way to explain a culture and its changes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition

Pb £27.95 Food in Zones of Conflict Published September 2017 Food in Zones of Conflict Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives Collinson, P. and Macbeth, H. (eds)

Controlling food and access to food can be used as a weapon. This is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict, because conflict impinges on the production and the distribution of food causing increased competition for food, land and resources. These themes unite the chapters of Food in Zones of Conflict, but since the topic is multidisciplinary, this volume appeals specialists in any field.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb £27.95 Reconstructing Obesity Published October 2015 Reconstructing Obesity The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings McCullough, M. & Hardin, J. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition

Pb £27.95 Foodways & Empathy Published March 2016 Foodways and Empathy Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea Poser, A. von
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb £27.95 Liquid Bread Published May 2013 Liquid Bread Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective Schiefenhövel, W. and Macbeth, H. (eds)
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb £19.95 Consuming the Inedible Published October 2009 Consuming the Inedible Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice MacClancy, J., Henry, C. Jeya & Macbeth, H. (eds)
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb £27.95 Researching Food Habits Published February 2004 Researching Food Habits Methods and Problems Macbeth, H. & MacClancy, J. (eds)
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Theory and Methodology

Pb £27.95 Drinking Published December 2001 Drinking Anthropological Approaches Garine, I. & V. de (eds)
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb £27.95 Food for Health, Food for Wealth Published July 2004 Food for Health, Food for Wealth Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities Harbottle, L.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb £23.95 Food Preferences & Taste Published November 1997 Food Preferences and Taste Continuity and Change Macbeth, H.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb £27.95 Food & the Status Quest Published November 1997 Food and the Status Quest An Interdisciplinary Perspective Wiessner, P. & Schiefenhövel, W. (eds)
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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