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David E. Sutton
This work offers a theoretical account of the interrelationship of culture, food and memory. The Greek island of Kalymnos, where islanders claim to remember meals long past, provides the main…
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Offering a theoretical account of the interrelationship of culture, food, and memory, this book deals with anthropology’s focus on issues of embodiment, memory, and material culture, in relation to transnational…
What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory…
While recent anthropological studies have focused on reconstructing disputed histories, this book examines the multiple ways in which the past is used by people as a critical resource for interpreting…
Explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. This book focuses on micropractices in the kitchen, such as the…
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Is the restaurant an ideal total social phenomenon for the contemporary world? Restaurants define urban landscapes, reflecting and shaping the character of neighborhoods or standing for the ethos of an…
Restaurants have been accused of contributing to the homogenization of cultures. Yet, restaurants have also played a central role in the reassertion of the local, as powerful cultural brokers and…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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Shows that Shakespeare’s poetic imagination displays the essence of politics and inspires reflection on the fundamental questions of statesmanship and political leadership. This work explores such themes as classical republicanism…
Shows us that Shakespeare’s poetic imagination displays the essence of politics and inspires reflection on the fundamental questions of statesmanship and political leadership. This book explores themes such as classical…
