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  • Health and Ethnicity

    Edited by Helen Macbeth, Prakash Shetty ...
    In modern multicultural societies, the topic of 'health and ethnicity' has become increasingly recognised as highly relevant. All too frequently, academic coverage of the topic has been scattered in specialist literature of different disciplines; a book bringing these perspectives together has so far been lacking.The aim of the book is to explain the diversity in health experience due to ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Pure Food

    Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Paul Collinson, Helen Macbeth ...
    Series Book 12 - Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
    In presenting a variety of theoretical and cross-cultural perspectives on pure food, this volume demonstrates similarities and variations in cultural beliefs, behaviours and practices in different societies. These in turn highlight that pure food is a common issue for humanity, whatever the society, whatever the era. As a subject with much contemporary and cross-disciplinary relevance, Pure Food ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

    Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal, Helen Macbeth ...
    Series Book 9 - Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
    Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face. Its cross-disciplinary framework of chapters with local, regional and continental perspectives ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Consuming the Inedible

    Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice

    Edited by Jeremy M. MacClancy, Jeya Henry, Helen Macbeth ...
    Series Book 6 - Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
    Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological and health-related perspectives, examine in a rigorously comparative manner the consumption of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Food in Zones of Conflict

    Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Paul Collinson, Helen Macbeth ...
    Series Book 8 - Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
    The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict. The logistics of supply of food to military personnel ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Liquid Bread

    Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Edited by Wulf Schiefenhövel, Helen Macbeth ...
    Series Book 7 - Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
    “This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society.... Highly Recommended.”—ChoiceA Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011Winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook UK AwardBeer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become ... Read more

    $18.99 USD