Title Details: | |
Food and Culture |
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Other Titles: |
Biocultural approaches of food selection |
Authors: |
Matala, Antonia Grivetti, Louis |
Reviewer: |
Giannakoulia, Maria |
Subject: | LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > LIFE SCIENCES NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > ANTHROPOLOGY OF MATERIAL CULTURE LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE > CULTURAL HERITAGE |
Keywords: |
Identity food consumption
Food history Plant domestication Food emergencies Diet Clture Evolution Religion Food consumption trends |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
The book Food and Culture examines the human diet from a holistic, cross-cultural perspective that considers biology as well as culture, and the past as well as the present. The themes presented concern current issues on nutrition and health, culture-based dietary practices and restrictions, food and technology, and the historical diffusion of various food types between societies. In a practical context, this book provides insight into several areas such as, when health practitioners need to overcome what are seen as cultural barriers to better nutrition; these may be culinary traditions rooted deep in history, food taboos, various aspects of food related to ethnic identity and cognitive aspects understood as part of ideological systems. Moreover, Food and Culture examines the interrelationship between diet and culture and their mutual influence upon one another, the possibility of nutritional adaptation by biological and social means and genetic discrepancies.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Xifara, Foteini |
Graphic Editors: |
Kapantoni, Kleio |
Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 2015 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-960-603-067-3 |
License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-632 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/3801 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Matala, A., & Grivetti, L. (2015). Food and Culture [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-632 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. Food selection 2. Ηistory of foodstuffs 3. More on food and identity 4. Biocultural aspects of human nutrition 5. Greek diet 6. Theoretical approaches of food selection 7. The demand for dietary change |
Number of pages |
195 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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