Food for thought : nourishment, culture, meaning /

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Imprint:Cham : Springer, [2022]
©2022
Description:1 online resource () : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language:English
Series:Numanities - arts and humanities in progress, 2510-4438 ; volume 19
Numanities--arts and humanities in progress ; v. 19.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12699593
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Other authors / contributors:Stano, Simona, editor.
Bentley, Amy, 1962- editor.
ISBN:9783030811150
3030811158
9783030811143
303081114X
Notes:Includes index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 28, 2021).
Other form:Original 303081114X 9783030811143
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-030-81115-0
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Food for thought: An introduction (Simona Stano)
  • Part 1: Food, taste, and global cultures
  • Chapter 2. Alimentation: A general semiotic model of socialising food (Ugo Volli)
  • Chapter 3. On the face of food (Massimo Leone)
  • Chapter 4. Phenomenology of a symbolic dish: What Su Porceddu teaches us about food, meaning, and identification (Franciscu Sedda)
  • Chapter 5. Food heritage, memory and cultural identity in Saudi Arabia: The case of Jeddah (Cristina Greco)
  • Chapter 6. Bittersweet home: The sweets craft in the urban life of Tripoli, Lebanon (Henry Peck)
  • Part 2: Law, power, and media
  • Chapter 7. "An act authorizing sterilization of persons convicted of murder, rape, chicken stealing..." Southern chicken theft laws as an expression of racialised political violence (Daniel Thoennessen)
  • Chapter 8. Free breakfast and Taco trucks: Case studies of food as rhetorical homology in political discourse (Suzanne Cope)
  • Chapter 9. "Superfine quality, absolute purity, daily freshness" The language of advertising in united cattle products' marketing of tripe to British workers in the 1920s and 1930s (David Bell)
  • Chapter 10. New generations and axiologies of food in cinema and new media (Bruno Surace)
  • Part 3: Nutrition and culture. Chapter 11. Beyond nutrition: Meanings, narratives, myths (Simona Stano)
  • Chapter 12. Laughing alone with salad: Nutrition-based inequity in women's diet and wellness media (Emily Contois)
  • Chapter 13. Virtue and disease: Narrative accounts of orthorexia nervosa (Lauren Wynne).