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The Anthropology of Food and Body

Gender, Meaning and Power

By: Carole M. Counihan

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The Anthropology of Food and Body

Gender, Meaning and Power

By: Carole M. Counihan

The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating the relationship between food, the body, and cultural notions of gender.

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1317325397

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Around the Tuscan Table

Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence

By: Carole M. Counihan

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Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence

By: Carole M. Counihan

In this delicious book, noted food scholar Carole M. Counihan presents a compelling and artfully told narrative about family and food in late 20th-century Florence. Based on solid research, Counihan examines how family, and especially gender have changed in Florence since the end of World War II to the present, giving us a portrait of the changing nature of modern life as exemplified through food and foodways.

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1135939632

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Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia

Place, Taste, and Community

By: Carole Counihan

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Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia

Place, Taste, and Community

By: Carole Counihan

With her new book, Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia, cultural anthropologist Carole Counihan makes a significant contribution to understanding the growing global movement for food democracy. Providing a detailed ethnographic case study from Cagliari, the capital of the Italian island-region of Sardinia, she draws upon Sardinians' own descriptions of their actions and motivations to change their food as they pursue grassroots alternatives to the agro-industrial food system through GAS (Gruppi di Acquisito Solidale or solidarity-based purchase groups), organic and urban agriculture, alternative restaurants, and farm-to-school programs. They link their activism to the sensory and emotional resonance of food and its nostalgic connections to place, tradition, and culture. They stress the importance of education through experience, and they build relationships and networks through workshops, farm visits, and commensality. The book focuses on three key themes to emerge in interviews with Cagliari food activists: the significance of territorio (or place), the importance of taste, and the role of education. By exploring these areas of concern, Counihan uncovers key tensions in consumption as a force for change, in individual vs. group actions, and in political and economic power relations, which are of crucial importance to wider global efforts to promote food democracy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474262309

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A Tortilla Is Like Life

Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado

By: Carole M. Counihan

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A Tortilla Is Like Life

Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado

By: Carole M. Counihan

An innovative portrait of a small Colorado town based on a decade’s worth of food-centered life histories from nineteen of its female residents. Located in the southern San Luis Valley of Colorado, the remote and relatively unknown town of Antonito is home to an overwhelmingly Hispanic population struggling not only to exist in an economically depressed and politically marginalized area, but also to preserve their culture and their lifeways. Between 1996 and 2006, anthropologist Carole Counihan collected food-centered life histories from nineteen Mexicanas―Hispanic American women―who had long-standing roots in the Upper Rio Grande region. The interviews in this groundbreaking study focused on southern Colorado Hispanic foodways―beliefs and behaviors surrounding food production, distribution, preparation, and consumption. In this book, Counihan features extensive excerpts from these interviews to give voice to the women of Antonito and highlight their perspectives. Three lines of inquiry are framed: feminist ethnography, Latino cultural citizenship, and Chicano environmentalism. Counihan documents how Antonito’s Mexicanas establish a sense of place and belonging through their knowledge of land and water and use this knowledge to sustain their families and communities. Women play an important role by gardening, canning, and drying vegetables; earning money to buy food; cooking; and feeding family, friends, and neighbors on ordinary and festive occasions. They use food to solder or break relationships and to express contrasting feelings of harmony and generosity, or enmity and envy. The interviews in this book reveal that these Mexicanas are resourceful providers whose food work contributes to cultural survival. “An important contribution to Mexican American culture.” ―Oral History Review “Counihan’s book is well written and will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers . . . I would recommend this book to those whose interests lie in foodways, gender studies, ethnography and folklore. A Tortilla is Like Life would be a good addition to any reading list, and a beneficial resource for those who desire to understand the complex associations of gender, food, culture and ethnicity.” —Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture

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University of Texas Press

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0292782446

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Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia

Place, Taste, and Community

By: Carole Counihan

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Place, Taste, and Community

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474262295

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Around the Tuscan Table

Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence

By: Carole M. Counihan

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Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence

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The Anthropology of Food and Body

Gender, Meaning and Power

By: Carole M. Counihan

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Gender, Meaning and Power

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A Tortilla Is Like Life

Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado

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Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado

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Food and Gender

By: Carole M. Counihan

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Food and Gender

By: Carole M. Counihan

This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It considers how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy. This relationship is considered through two central questions: How does control of food production, distribution, and consumption contribute to men's and women's power and social position? and How does food symbolically connote maleness and femaleness and establish the social value of men and women? Other issues discussed include men's and women's attitudes towards their bodies and the legitimacy of their appetites.

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Food and Gender

By: Carole M. Counihan

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The Oxford Handbook of Food History

By: Jeffrey M. Pilcher

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The Oxford Handbook of Food History

By: Jeffrey M. Pilcher

This handbook places existing works of food history in historiographical context, crossing disciplinary, chronological and geographic boundaries, while also suggesting new routes for future research. The 27 essays in this book are organised into 5 basic sections: historiography and disciplinary approaches as well as the production, circulation, and consumption of food.

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0199971269

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Rachel Carson

Excellent Ecologist

By: Carole Marsh

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Rachel Carson

Excellent Ecologist

By: Carole Marsh

Rachel Carson was a science pioneer. She was a writer and a scientist. She recognized the dangers pesticide use created for nature. Rachel Carson wrote books to warn people about pesticides like DDT. The most well-known is "Silent Spring." Rachel's books inspired others to research the dangers she found. These popular readers include easy-to-read information, fun facts and trivia, humor, activities and a whole lot more. They are great for ages 7-12 (grades 2-6), because although simple, these readers have substance and really engage kids with their stories. They are great for social studies, meeting state and national curriculum standards, individual and group reading programs, centers, library programs, and have many other terrific educational uses. Get the Answer Key for the Quizzes! Click HERE.

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Gallopade International

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0635025248

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Book's by Carole Counihan

The Anthropology of Food and Body

The Anthropology of Food and Body

Around the Tuscan Table

Around the Tuscan Table

Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia

Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia

A Tortilla Is Like Life

A Tortilla Is Like Life

Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia

Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia

Around the Tuscan Table

Around the Tuscan Table

The Anthropology of Food and Body

The Anthropology of Food and Body

A Tortilla Is Like Life

A Tortilla Is Like Life

Food and Gender

Food and Gender

Food and Gender

Food and Gender

The Oxford Handbook of Food History

The Oxford Handbook of Food History

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

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