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  • Eating in the city

    Socio-anthropological perspectives from Africa, Latin America and Asia

    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    This book explores changes in eating habits in African, Latin American and Asian cities. It reveals—through studies on city dwellers’ food practices and representations—the inadequacy of an analytical approach to these changes in terms of Westernization, standardization, transition or convergence towards a widely applicable model. Surveys conducted in cities of the Global South revealed that city ... Read more

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  • Food System Sustainability

    Insights From duALIne

    As western-style food systems extend further around the world, food sustainability is becoming an increasingly important issue. Such systems are not sustainable in terms of their consumption of resources, their impact on ecosystems or their effect on health and social inequality. From 2009 to 2011, the duALIne project, led by INRA and CIRAD, assembled a team of experts to investigate food systems ... Read more

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  • Studying food and eaters

    A cocktail of perspectives and methods

    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    Multidisciplinary work which presents research methods and reflections on food (consumption, preparation, food intake), when eaters are placed at the center of the study. The book has 15 chapters. Each chapter is dedicated to a method. It presents its origin and its history and details the questions it answers, addresses its limitations, as well as its contribution to an integrated approach to ... Read more

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  • Designing Urban Food Policies

    Concepts and Approaches

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments. Written by a collective of researchers, this book describes the existing conceptual frameworks for an analysis of urban food policies, at the crossroads of the concepts of food ... Read more

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  • The New Parisienne

    The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris

    "Tramuta sweeps away the tired clichés of the Parisian woman with her vivid profiles of the dynamic and creative 'femmes' now powering the French capital." —Eleanor Beardsley, NPR Paris correspondentThe New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman—white, lithe, ever fashionable—Lindsey Tramuta demystifies this ... Read more

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  • Au Contraire!

    Figuring Out the French

    "I find Au Contraire! delightfully validating - a great piece of work." - Nancy Bragard, Franco-American interculturalist, trainer and coachThe French are famously enigmatic: fiercely independent yet deeply romantic,conservative yet avant-garde, rational yet emotional. What is it, exactly, that makes the French so . . . French?Written for anyone interacting with the French-tourists, businesspeople ... Read more

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  • Eating Culture

    An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition

    From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture.The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions about nomadism, commercializing food, food security, and ethical consumption, including treatment of ... Read more

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  • Health Promotion and the Policy Process

    Scholars and governments recognize the importance of policy development and implementation for population health, but there is a lack of systematic theoretical and conceptual development in the health field to address the issue. Health Promotion and the Policy Process is the first book to take an in-depth look at the theoretical advances in the political sciences, including discussing the ... Read more

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  • Intercultural Competences

    Series series Routledge-Noordhoff International Editions
    In a multicultural environment, having intercultural competences is the most important determining factor between success and failure.This concise book introduces the topic for students and scholars. Building upon an accessible understanding of cultural differences, the author provides various models for understanding and framing culture. Theory is linked to practice by examining how to deal with ... Read more

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  • Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education

    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
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