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This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offerin... Front Matter
22 lip 2020 · The purpose of this study is to present a theoretical analysis that seeks an answer on the question of what the meanings of food are in anthropology and sociology.
The kitchen is a dynamic space that we interact in daily and routinely. While food studies may be the ‘growing trend’ (Cosgrove, 2015) in today’s anthropological, sociological and even cultural studies, the kitchen has taken a back seat. It is even often overlooked and may be deemed unimportant, as Short argues.
I will monitor the social life of groups and individuals, and observe contexts of consumption - such as superstores, clothes boutiques, sport centers - where those different groups interact.
Focusing on the spatial dynamics of the domestic kitchen, this paper advances a more nuanced understanding of the co-constitutive nature of the relationship between gender and power, including the instabilities and slippages that occur in the performance of various domestic foodwork tasks.
Anthropologists’ grasps on food-related symbols and meanings and the structural aspects of food systems positions them well to consider the social consequences of economic change as well as issues of sustainability and food safety.
1 sty 2012 · Nutritional anthropology utilizes a biocultural paradigm to investigate how social structures affect food consumption and therefore how social forces cause biological ramifications within the...
