Food & society:principles and paradoxes

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Guptill Amy E
Group Author: Copelton Denise A; Lucal Betsy
Published: Polity,
Publisher Address: Cambridge Malden, MA
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: 232 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780745642819 (hbk.)
0745642810 (hbk.)
9780745642826 (pbk.)
0745642829 (pbk.)
Index Number: R155
CLC: R155.1
Call Number: R155.1/G977
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-207) and index.
Principles and paradoxes in the study of food -- Food and identity : fitting in and standing out -- Food as spectacle : the hard work of leisure -- Nutrition and health : good to eat, hard to stomach -- Branding and marketing : governing the sovereign consumer -- Industrialization : the high costs of cheap food -- Global food : from everywhere and nowhere -- Food access : surplus and scarcity -- Food and social change : the value of values.