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Culinary Art and Anthropology is an anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavour using an original interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the 'art nexus'. Grounded in ethnography, it explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill and artistic practice. The integral role and concept of 'flavour' in everyday life is examined among cottage industry barbacoa makers in Milpa Alta, an outer district of Mexico City. Women's work and local festive occasions are examined against a background of material on professional chefs who reproduce 'traditional' Mexican cooking in restaurant settings. Including recipes to allow readers to practise the art of Mexican cooking, Culinary Art and Anthropology offers a sensual, theoretically sophisticated model for understanding food anthropologically. It will appeal to social scientists, food lovers, and those interested in the growing fields of food studies and the anthropology of the senses.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Culinary Art and Anthropology
• Author: Joy Adapon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781847882127
• ISBN: 1847882129
• ID: 04287217
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 274 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 156 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2008

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