Food and Culture: A Reader Book

	Foreword from The Gastronomical Me
	Introduction	1
	Food, Meaning, and Voice	9
1	The Changing Significance of Food	11
2	Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption	20
3	The Culinary Triangle	28
4	Deciphering a Meal	36
5	The Semiotics of Food in the Bible	55
6	The Abominable Pig	67
7	Traditional Medical Values of Food	80
	Commensality and Fasting: Giving, Receiving, and Refusing Food	93
8	Food as a Cultural Construction	95
9	The Psychoanalytic Study of Infantile Feeding Disturbances	107
10	Nutritional Processes and Personality Development among the Gurage of Ethiopia	117
11	Hunger, Anxiety, and Ritual: Deprivation and Spirit Possession among the Gurage of Ethiopia	125
12	Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women	138
13	The Appetite as Voice	159
14	Conflict and Deference	180
	Food, Body, and Culture	201
15	An Anthropological Approach to the Problem of Obesity	203
16	Body Image and Self-Awareness	211
17	Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture	226
18	Que Gordita	251
19	The Sweetness of Fat: Health, Procreation, and Sociability in Rural Jamaica	256
20	Soul, Black Women, and Food	272
	The Political Economy of Food: Commodification and Scarcity	281
21	Bread as World: Food Habits and Social Relations in Modernizing Sardinia	283
22	Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus	296
23	On the Civilizing of Appetite	315
24	Industrial Food: Towards the Development of a World Cuisine	338
25	Time, Sugar, and Sweetness	357
26	The Politics of Breastfeeding: An Advocacy Perspective	370
27	Hunger, Malnutrition, and Poverty in the Contemporary United States: Some Observations on Their Social and Cultural Context	384
28	Beyond the Myths of Hunger: What We Can Do?	402
	Permissions	413
	Contributors	417
	Index	421