Food and the Status Quest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Anthropology of Food & Nutrition)

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9781571818713: Food and the Status Quest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Anthropology of Food & Nutrition)
ISBN 10: 1571818715 ISBN 13: 9781571818713
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

The use of food to negotiate status is found in all human societies. Here, for the first time, a single book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behavior that appears to have biological roots such as the tendency to seek status through the medium of food. It explores the limits that our biological heritage places on cultural expressions of such behavior, as well as the multiplicity of ways in which biologically based tendencies can be transformed by culture. Finally, it addresses the impact of status-seeking on nutritional programs in developing countries.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Polly Wiessner and Wulf Schiefenhövel are Senior Research Fellows at the Forschungsstellefür Humanethologie, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.

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The use of food to negotiate status is found in all human societies. Here, for the first time, a single book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behaviour that appears to have biological roots such as the tendency to seek status through the medium of food. It explores the limits that our biological heritage places on cultural expressions of such behaviour, as well as the multiplicity of ways in which biologically based tendencies can be transformed by culture. Finally, it addresses the impact of status-seeking on nutritional programmes in developing countries.

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1571818715
ISBN 13 
9781571818713
Einband
Bibliothekseinband
Anzahl der Seiten
304
Herausgeber
Wiessner Polly
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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mail@preigu.de

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