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  • Eating in the city

    Socio-anthropological perspectives from Africa, Latin America and Asia

    de Audrey Soula, Chelsie Yount-André, Olivier Lepiller, Nicolas Bricas, Jean-Pierre Hassoun ...
    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    This book explores changes in eating habits in African, Latin American and Asian cities. It reveals—through studies on city dwellers’ food practices and representations—the inadequacy of an analytical approach to these changes in terms of Westernization, standardization, transition or convergence towards a widely applicable model. Surveys conducted in cities of the Global South revealed that city ... Leer más

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  • The New Parisienne

    The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

    de Lindsey Tramuta, Joann Pai ...
    "Tramuta sweeps away the tired clichés of the Parisian woman with her vivid profiles of the dynamic and creative 'femmes' now powering the French capital." —Eleanor Beardsley, NPR Paris correspondentThe New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman—white, lithe, ever fashionable—Lindsey Tramuta demystifies this ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Au Contraire!

    Figuring Out the French

    de Gilles Asselin, Ruth Mastron ...
    "I find Au Contraire! delightfully validating - a great piece of work." - Nancy Bragard, Franco-American interculturalist, trainer and coachThe French are famously enigmatic: fiercely independent yet deeply romantic,conservative yet avant-garde, rational yet emotional. What is it, exactly, that makes the French so . . . French?Written for anyone interacting with the French-tourists, businesspeople ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Eating Culture

    An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition

    de Gillian Crowther ...
    From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture.The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions about nomadism, commercializing food, food security, and ethical consumption, including treatment of ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Intercultural Competences

    de Patrick T.H.M. Janssen ...
    Series series Routledge-Noordhoff International Editions
    In a multicultural environment, having intercultural competences is the most important determining factor between success and failure.This concise book introduces the topic for students and scholars. Building upon an accessible understanding of cultural differences, the author provides various models for understanding and framing culture. Theory is linked to practice by examining how to deal with ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Foodies

    Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape

    de Josee Johnston, Shyon Baumann ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent ‘hole in the wall’ ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The second story describes how food operates as a source of status and distinction for economic and ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Food

    Food Cultures between Sharing and Exclusion Practices

    de Ugo E. M. Fabietti, Michela Badii, Silvia Barberani, Marinella Carosso, Federica Riva, Mauro Van Aken ...
    Series Libro 11 - Quaderni
    Nutrition appears as one of those elements of human actions and thoughts through which human beings express ways and forms of collective existence. What we commonly refer to as the economic, political and symbolic spheres converge in nutrition, so much so that eating as a practice is a sort of “total social fact” or, in other words, a form of cultural expression tracing back to the very ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Food Pedagogies

    Edición de Rick Flowers, Elaine Swan ...
    Series series Critical Food Studies
    In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. In light of this, contributors to this book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a range of domains, including schools, supermarkets, families, advertising and TV media. Illustrated ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Innovation and development in agricultural and food systems

    de Guy Faure, Yuna Chiffoleau, Frédéric Goulet, Ludovic Temple, Jean-Marc Touzard ...
    Series series Synthèses
    The book looks at innovation in agriculture and food systems against the backdrop of the great challenges facing humanity today. It does so by exploring the different dimensions of change and by focusing on the meaning accorded to innovation by these systems’ stakeholders. Innovation is apprehended in its cognitive, technical, organizational and institutional complexity. Methods and mechanisms to ... Leer más

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  • Living territories to transform the world

    de Patrick Caron, Elodie Valette, Tom Wassenaar, Geo Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge, Vatché Papazian ...
    What resources underpin the development of a territory? What does territorial management of resources mean? What specific characteristics and opportunities does territorial organization offer for agricultural production, regulation of sectors, and services? How are territorial public policies conceived and applied? But also, what are the limits of the territorial approach? How does a territorial ... Leer más

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  • Fast Food/Slow Food

    The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

    de Cathy Banwell, Theodore C. Bestor, Michael L. Burton, Jane Dixon, James A. Egan, Sarah Hinde, Valerie Imbruce, Dolores Koenig, Sarah Lyon, Ty Matejowsky, Heather McIntyre, Sidney Mintz, Karen L. Nero, Heather Paxson, Jeffery Pilcher, Lois Stanford, Penny Van Esterik, Gavin Whitelaw ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Global Urban Politics

    Informalization of the State

    de Julie-Anne Boudreau ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the StateIn what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions.Organized thematically, the book examines urban social movements, diversity politics, ... Leer más

    $19.00 USD