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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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1317325389

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9781317325383

Around the Tuscan Table

Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth-century Florence

By: Carole Counihan

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Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth-century Florence

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415946735

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The Anthropology of Food and Body

Gender, Meaning and Power

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Gender, Meaning and Power

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1317325397

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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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1134416385

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9781134416387

A Tortilla Is Like Life

Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado

By: Carole M. Counihan

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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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9780292782440

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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A Tortilla Is Like Life

Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado

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Book's by Carole M. Counihan

The Anthropology of Food and Body

The Anthropology of Food and Body

Around the Tuscan Table

Around the Tuscan Table

The Anthropology of Food and Body

The Anthropology of Food and Body

Food and Gender

Food and Gender

A Tortilla Is Like Life

A Tortilla Is Like Life

Around the Tuscan Table

Around the Tuscan Table

A Tortilla Is Like Life

A Tortilla Is Like Life

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