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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures Irina D. Mihalache
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures
Irina D. Mihalache
In this ground breaking book, leading scholars and professionals apply a material cultural perspective to consider two relatively unexplored questions: 1) What is the material culture of food? and 2) How are frameworks, concepts, and methods of material culture used in scholarly research and professional practice?
The book includes contributions from and interviews with a dynamic group of scholars, and museum and information professionals who represent diverse disciplines including communication studies, anthropology, history, American studies, folklore and food studies, and areas of practice, specifically interpretation, exhibition development, archives, and ethnographies. With contributors spanning South Africa, Singapore, Greece, Canada, Mexico, and the USA and historical coverage from the 19th through to the 21st century, this volume acknowledges that materiality is historically and culturally specific, as food both transcends and collapses geographical and ideological borders. The contributions capture the malleability of food, its material environments and "stuff", and its representations in media, museums, and marketing, while following food through cycles of production, circulation, and consumption. As many of the authors explore, food and its many material and immaterial manifestations not only reflect social issues, but actively produce, preserve, and disrupt identities, communities, economic systems, and everyday social practices.
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384 pages, 50 bw illus
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 23, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350148307 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 368 |
| Dimensions | 176 × 251 × 25 mm · 784 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Mihalache, Irina D. (University of Toronto, Canada) |
| Editor | Zanoni, Professor Elizabeth (Old Dominion University, USA) |
