Food Consumption in Global Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Cooking, Cuisine and Class and the Anthropology of Food

   • Jakob A. Klein

   Pages 1-24

3. Meat: A Cultural Biography in (South) China

   • James L. Watson

   Pages 25-44

4. From Fasting to Fast Food in Kumasi, Ghana

   • Gracia Clark

   Pages 45-64

5. Civilizing Tastes: From Caste to Class in South Indian Foodways

   • James Staples

   Pages 65-86

6. The Fast and the Fusion: Class, Colonialism and the Remaking of Comida Típica in Highland Ecuador

   • Emma-Jayne Abbots

   Pages 87-107

7. The High and the Low in the Making of a Portuguese National Cuisine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

   • José Manuel Sobral

   Pages 108-134

8. Indigestion in the Long Nineteenth Century: Aspects of English Taste and Anxiety, 1800–1950

   • Stephen Mennell

   Pages 135-158

9. Eating Out Bangladeshi-Style: Catering and Class in Diasporic East London

   • Johan Pottier

   Pages 159-181

10. The Taste for Milk in Modern China (1865–1937)

    • Françoise Sabban

    Pages 182-208

11. Drink, Meals and Social Boundaries

    • Sami Zubaida

    Pages 209-223

12. Back Matter

    Pages 224-230

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With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food.

• Food
• social
• anthropology
• culture
• cuisine
• cooking
• consumption
• globalisation
• anxiety
• biography
• China
• English
• Europe
• Nation
• Taste
• Watson

“This volume is both an appreciation of Jack Goody’s ground-breaking studies on social class and food, and an extension into spaces and systems unexamined in his work. … Highly recommended, this unusually well-integrated volume offers academic researchers, students, and general readers a rich collection of data and thoughtful analysis, while both celebrating a great scholar and providing new territory for exploration.” (Merry I. White, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 23 (3), September, 2017) 

• School of Oriental and African Studies, UK

  Jakob A. Klein, Anne Murcott

Emma-Jayne Abbots, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK Gracia Clark, Indiana University, USA Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin, Ireland Johan Pottier, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Françoise Sabban, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France José Manuel Sobral, University of Lisbon, Portugal James Staples, Brunel University, UK James L. Watson, Harvard University, USA Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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