Consuming the Inedible by Jeremy M Macclancy
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."..contains fascinating material on the social, political, nutritional, and evolutionary aspects of human food choice. Scholars and students in food studies will find Consuming the Inedible useful for its variety of approaches to 'unusual' eating practices, and several of the chapters should also find their way onto reading lists for courses in the anthropology of food." · JRAI
Jeremy M. MacClancy is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Anthropology Department, Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Consuming Culture, and prize-winning investigator of Basque cuisine. Jeya Henry is Professor of Human Nutrition at the School of Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, and Visting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a board member of the UK Food Standards agency between 2000- 2003 and has published extensively on energy regulation and obesity. Helen Macbeth is Chair of ICAF (UK) and Honorary Research Fellow at the Anthropology Department, Oxford Brookes University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845456849 |
| ISBN 10 | 184545684X |
| Title | Consuming the Inedible |
| Author | Jeremy M Macclancy |
| Series | Anthropology Of Food And Nutrition |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2009-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 258 |
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