Food & society : principles and paradoxes / Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge : Polity Press, ©2017.Edition: Second editionDescription: 250 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781509501847 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23
LOC classification:
  • GT2855 .G86 2017
Summary: This text offers readers a social perspective on food, food practices and the modern food system. It engages readers' curiosity by highlighting several paradoxes: how food is both individual and social, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary global era, comes from everywhere but nowhere in particular.
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Previous edition: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text offers readers a social perspective on food, food practices and the modern food system. It engages readers' curiosity by highlighting several paradoxes: how food is both individual and social, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary global era, comes from everywhere but nowhere in particular.

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