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Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past

Name: Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past
Brand: Beacon Press
SKU: 9780807046296
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Contributors:

Sidney Wilfred Mintz

Publisher:

Beacon Press

Release Date:

2012-03-09

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Cooking

Book Subcategory:

Anthropology, Customs & Traditions, History

Book Topic:

Cultural & Social

ISBN 13:

9780807046296

Weight:

0.5 lbs

Size:

Pages:

170

Description

A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.

Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.

About the Author
Sidney W. Mintz, author of Worker in the Cane, Carribbean Transformations, and Sweetness and Power is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

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