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Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Goody, Jack. Food and love. London ; New York : Verso, 1998 (OCoLC)607197819 Online version: Goody, Jack. Food and love. London ; New York : Verso, 1998 (OCoLC)609355518 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jack Goody |
ISBN: | 185984829X 9781859848296 |
OCLC Number: | 41243363 |
Description: | ix, 305 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. I. Family. 1. The East in the West. 2. The uniqueness of the European family? 3. Comparing family systems in Europe and Asia: are there different sets of rules? 4. Women, class and family. 5. Love, lust and literacy -- pt. II. Food. 6. Food, family and feminism. 7. Structuralism, materialism and the horse. 8. The globalisation of Chinese food. 9. Why no wine on the table? -- pt. III. Doubts. 10. The Great and Little Traditions in the Mediterranean. 11. A kernel of doubt. 12. Man and the natural world: reflections on history and anthropology. 13. Creation and evolution. 14. Civil society in a comparative perspective. |
Responsibility: | Jack Goody. |
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Abstract:
Starting with a discussion of the treatment of food and love by figures such as Marx, as well as contemporary historical and sociological notions of modernisation, this text examines phenomena such as the uniqueness of the European family and the development of romantic love.
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