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Eating in the City : Socio-Anthropological Perspectives from Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soula, Audrey.
Other Authors: Yount-André, Chelsie., Lepiller, Olivier., Bricas, Nicolas., Hassoun, Jean-Pierre., Manley, David.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Versailles : Quae, 2020.
Series:Update Sciences and Technologies Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction - viewing food through the lens of urban eaters
  • Part 1. Urban foodways at the cusp of normative injunctions
  • Chapter 1. Feeding children - a focus of tension in the Algerian city of Oran
  • Chapter 2. Getting out of the kitchen! Reshaping gender relations and food practices in Casablanca
  • Chapter 3. Can I trust this food? Trust and distrust in eating among middle-class youth in urban India
  • Chapter 4. Eating out in Mexico City and Guadalajara - some conflict between health and heritage dimensions in Mexico
  • Part 2. When food practices dovetail with urban landscapes
  • Chapter 5. Urban cuisine in Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo)
  • Chapter 6. Warung makan - public kitchens at the epicentre of informality in Jakarta
  • Chapter 7. "Home and away" - narratives of food and identity in the context of urbanization in Malaysia
  • Chapter 8. Sweet commercial drink adoption by urban Chinese middle-class people - between social control and new beverage consumption contexts
  • Part 3. When the city invents its cuisine
  • Chapter 9. Bâbenda - a modernized traditional dish Urban trajectory of a Burkinabe culinary specialty
  • Chapter 10. Attiéké-garba - good to eat and think about Social distinction and challenging hygiene standards in the Ivorian urban context
  • Chapter 11. 'Food from the pot' Child nutrition and socialization in two Cameroonian cities
  • Chapter 12. Modern culinary traditions for precarious times. Food insecurity and everyday practices among poor households in Mexico City
  • Conclusion - what insight emerges to enhance research on transformations in urban food and eating habits?
  • List of contributors.

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