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By: Joy Adapon

ISBN: 9781847882127
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavour using an interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the 'art nexus'. It explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill and artistic practice. Including recipes to allow readers to practise the art of Mexican cooking, it offers a model for understanding food anthropologically.


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By: Dr Peter Naccarato

ISBN: 9780857853820
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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TV cookery shows hosted by celebrities. On-line grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, fairs and food blogs. Food plays a vital social role, offering status for those who conform to their culture's culinary norms. Culinary Capital analyzes this phenomenon in action across the landscape of contemporary culture.


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By: Dr Peter Naccarato

ISBN: 9780857853837
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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TV cookery shows hosted by celebrities. On-line grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, fairs and food blogs. Food plays a vital social role, offering status for those who conform to their culture's culinary norms. Culinary Capital analyzes this phenomenon in action across the landscape of contemporary culture.


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By: Deborah R. Geis

ISBN: 9781666958638
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book offers a new approach to the evolving genre of films that center on the acts of eating and cooking, from the classics to later box-office hits. The author explores significant tropes, including the transcultural feast and the obsessive chef, to reveal how these films construct vicarious pleasure for the viewers who consume them.


(Hardback)

By: Stephen Wooten

ISBN: 9781350382459
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Michelle T. King

ISBN: 9781350236868
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Catriona Miller

ISBN: 9781350163904
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Catriona Miller

ISBN: 9781350194175
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Fred Kirschenmann

ISBN: 9781582437521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Originally published: Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010.


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By: Alison Hope Alkon

ISBN: 9780262516327
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.


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By: Rodney Barker

ISBN: 9781526114594
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 17th July 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This bold and original study looks at the performance of identity in the public sphere, using the concept of 'plumage' to capture the countless elements that go together to make up a shared identity. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Rodney Barker

ISBN: 9781526114587
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This bold and original study looks at the performance of identity in the public sphere, using the concept of 'plumage' to capture the countless elements that go together to make up a shared identity. -- .


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By: Larry Naylor

ISBN: 9780897894784
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This collection of readings provides the reader with a basic introduction to the topic and concepts of cultural diversity as it has come to characterize the culture of the United States. No other book is as complete in its coverage of the diverse cultural groupings that make up the American culture.


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By: Larry Naylor

ISBN: 9780897894791
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This collection of readings provides the reader with a basic introduction to the topic and concepts of cultural diversity as it has come to characterize the culture of the United States. No other book is as complete in its coverage of the diverse cultural groupings that make up the American culture.


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By: Michael Kimmel

ISBN: 9780759123120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An A-to-Z encyclopedia devoted to the penis, offering refreshing, thoughtful, and wide-ranging insight into how we have thought about this malleable, meaningful body part over the centuries and across cultures.


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By: Margaret Puskar-Pasewicz

ISBN: 9780313375569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Intended for students, general readers, vegetarians, and vegans, as well as those interested in animal welfare and liberation, this A-Z encyclopedia explores the historical and cultural significance of vegetarianism in the United States and beyond.


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By: David Trend

ISBN: 9780897892568
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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He argues that we need to redefine concepts like art, literature, and education, to integrate them more fully into our lives.

On one hand, Trend uses a critical approach to examine how cultural work and pedagogy intersect within a range of discourses such as Marxist, feminist, deconstructionist and postcolonial.


(Paperback)

By: David Trend

ISBN: 9780897892575
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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He argues that we need to redefine concepts like art, literature, and education, to integrate them more fully into our lives.

On one hand, Trend uses a critical approach to examine how cultural work and pedagogy intersect within a range of discourses such as Marxist, feminist, deconstructionist and postcolonial.


(Paperback)

By: Eid Mohamed

ISBN: 9780755641277
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Eid Mohamed

ISBN: 9780755634187
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Prof. John Hartley

ISBN: 9781849666022
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Cultural Science is a new way of thinking about culture. The book synthesises recent work across different disciplines, setting out a new, evolutionary approach to cultural studies. Engaging with scientific traditions in a way that previous literature has failed to do, it promises to be break new ground in social scientific scholarship.


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By: Prof. John Hartley

ISBN: 9781474279239
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Cultural Science is a new way of thinking about culture. The book synthesises recent work across different disciplines, setting out a new, evolutionary approach to cultural studies. Engaging with scientific traditions in a way that previous literature has failed to do, it promises to be break new ground in social scientific scholarship.


(Paperback)

By: L L Cavalli-sforza

ISBN: 9780691082837
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 1981
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)

By: Daniel S. Traber

ISBN: 9781498554770
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book is an examination of theories and practices of non-identity in American culture, one interested in seeing identity as varied, diffuse and distorted through subjects ranging from hip hop parodies to punk preppies to pachuco-ska; thus, the work itself crosses the lines of genre, medium and discipline.

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