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Food Anthropology in India

Author : Partho Pratim Seal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000872165
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Food Anthropology in India written by Partho Pratim Seal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores food in India and its evolution from prehistoric times to contemporary food trends while highlighting the intersections between culture, rituals, environment, and the economy with food, ingredients, and eating practices. It looks at the history of food and food preferences in India by studying historical, medicinal, and religious texts. The book analyses preferences and taboos from social, anthropological, cultural, political, and economic perspectives, mapping how food practices influence and are influenced by religion, production and distribution, ecology, and social class. It also examines consumption practices, problems with food production, agricultural distress, food and farming reforms, globalisation of food, the adoption of sustainable practices, and the future of farming, diets, and eating. Engaging and comprehensive, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of anthropology, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, political studies, development studies, and food studies.

Food Culture in India

Author : Colleen Taylor Sen Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031308582X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Food Culture in India written by Colleen Taylor Sen Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extreme diversity of Indian food culture—including the dizzying array of ingredients and dishes—is made manageable in this groundbreaking reference. India has no national dish or cuisine; however, certain ingredients, dishes, and cooking styles are typical of much of the subcontinent's foodways. There are also common ways of thinking about food. The balanced coverage found herein covers many states ignored by previous food writers. Students will find much of cultural interest here to complement country studies and foodies will discover fresh perspectives. From prehistoric times there has been considerable mixing of cultures and cuisines within India. Today, the endless variations in cuisine reflect religious, community, regional, and economic differences and histories. Sen, a noted author on Indian cuisine, consummately encapsulates the foodways in historical context, including the influence of the British period (the Raj). Among the topics covered are the restrictions of various religions and castes and the northern wheat-based vs. the southern rice-based cuisine, with an extensive review of each regional cuisine with typical meals. She characterizes the only-recent restaurant culture, with mention of Indian fare offered abroad. In addition, the Indian sweet tooth so apparent in the dishes made for many festivals and celebrations is highlighted. The roles of diet and health are also explained, with an emphasis on Ayruveda, which is gaining support in Western countries. A plethora of recipes for different regions and occasions complements the text.

Food Culture Studies in India

Author : Simi Malhotra
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811552541
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Food Culture Studies in India written by Simi Malhotra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses food in the context of the cultural matrix of India. Addressing topical issues in food and food culture, it explores questions concerning the consumption, representation and mediation of food. The book is divided into four sections, focusing on food fads; food representation; the symbolic valence of food; modes and manners of resistance articulated through food. Investigating consumption practices in both public and ethnic culture, each chapter introduces a fresh approach to food across diverse literary and cultural genres. The book offers a highly readable guide for researchers and practitioners in the field of literary and cultural studies, as well as the sociological fields of food studies, body studies and fat studies.

Feasts and Fasts

Author : Colleen Taylor Sen
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780233914
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Feasts and Fasts written by Colleen Taylor Sen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dal to samosas, paneer to vindaloo, dosa to naan, Indian food is diverse and wide-ranging—unsurprising when you consider India’s incredible range of climates, languages, religions, tribes, and customs. Its cuisine differs from north to south, yet what is it that makes Indian food recognizably Indian, and how did it get that way? To answer those questions, Colleen Taylor Sen examines the diet of the Indian subcontinent for thousands of years, describing the country’s cuisine in the context of its religious, moral, social, and philosophical development. Exploring the ancient indigenous plants such as lentils, eggplants, and peppers that are central to the Indian diet, Sen depicts the country’s agricultural bounty and the fascination it has long held for foreign visitors. She illuminates how India’s place at the center of a vast network of land and sea trade routes led it to become a conduit for plants, dishes, and cooking techniques to and from the rest of the world. She shows the influence of the British and Portuguese during the colonial period, and she addresses India’s dietary prescriptions and proscriptions, the origins of vegetarianism, its culinary borrowings and innovations, and the links between diet, health, and medicine. She also offers a taste of Indian cooking itself—especially its use of spices, from chili pepper, cardamom, and cumin to turmeric, ginger, and coriander—and outlines how the country’s cuisine varies throughout its many regions. Lavishly illustrated with one hundred images, Feasts and Fasts is a mouthwatering tour of Indian food full of fascinating anecdotes and delicious recipes that will have readers devouring its pages.

Farm to Fingers

Author : Kiranmayi Bhushi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108416292
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Farm to Fingers written by Kiranmayi Bhushi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Enquires into the ways in which food and its production and consumption are enmeshed in aspects of human existence and society, taking India and its interaction with food as its focal point"--

Eating Culture

Author : Gillian Crowther
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487593317
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Eating Culture written by Gillian Crowther and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture. The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions about nomadism, commercializing food, food security, and ethical consumption, including treatment of animals and the long-term environmental and health consequences of meat consumption. New feature boxes offer case studies and exercises to help highlight anthropological methods and approaches, and each chapter includes a further reading section. By considering the concept of cuisine and public discourse, Eating Culture brings order and insight to our changing relationship with food.

The Modern Anthropology of India

Author : Peter Berger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134061188
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Anthropology of India written by Peter Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It highlights key analytical concepts and paradigms that came to be of relevance in particular regions in the recent history of research in India, and which possibly gained a pan-Indian or even trans-Indian significance. Structured according to the states of the Indian union, contributors raise several key questions, including: What themes were ethnographers interested in? What are the significant ethnographic contributions? How are peoples, communities and cultural areas represented? How has the ethnographic research in the area developed? Filling a significant gap in the literature, the book is an invaluable resource to students and researchers in the field of Indian anthropology/ethnography, regional anthropology and postcolonial studies. It is also of interest to students of South Asian studies in general as it provides an extensive and critical overview of regionally based ethnographic activity undertaken in India.

The Story of Our Food

Author : K.T. Achaya
Publisher : Universities Press
ISBN 13 : 9788173712937
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Our Food written by K.T. Achaya and published by Universities Press. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Outlines The Variety Of Cuisines, Food Materials And Dishes That Collectively Form Indian Food . It Draws Upon A Range Of Sources Literature, Archeology, Epigraphic Records, Anthropology, Philology, Botanical And Genetical Studies To Trace The History Of Indian Food: Classification, Customs, Rituals And Beliefs, Including The Etymology Of Food Terms. It Shows How Our Wonderful Indian Cuisine, With All Its Regional Variants, Is The Outcome Of Food Plants Brought Into India From Numerous Directions Over Thousands Of Years. And Of A Social Ethic In Which Cleanliness Was Indeed Next To Godliness.

Metabolic Living

Author : Harris Solomon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374447
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Metabolic Living written by Harris Solomon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. Solomon contends that obesity and diabetes pose a problem of absorption between body and environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mumbai's home kitchens, metabolic disorder clinics, food companies, markets, and social services, he details the absorption of everything from snack foods and mangoes to insulin, stress, and pollutants. As these substances pass between the city and the body and blur the two domains, the onset and treatment of metabolic illness raise questions about who has the power to decide what goes into bodies and when food means life. Evoking metabolism as a condition of contemporary urban life and a vital political analytic, Solomon illuminates the lived predicaments of obesity and diabetes, and reorients our understanding of chronic illness in India and beyond.

Food Consumption in Global Perspective

Author : J. Klein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137326417
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Food Consumption in Global Perspective written by J. Klein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food.

Anthropology of Food

Author : Johan Pottier
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745615349
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology of Food written by Johan Pottier and published by Polity. This book was released on 1999-08-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new book, Pottier provides an incisive account of food production and famine in the world today. Drawing on the work of anthropologists and other sources, he offers a wide-ranging account of the methods used to produce and distribute food in a variety of cultural and historical contexts, from India to sub-Saharan Africa.

Feeding the City

Author : Sara Roncaglia
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1909254002
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Feeding the City written by Sara Roncaglia and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city's workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world: only one lunch in six million goes astray. Feeding the City is an ethnographic study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai's dabbawalas. Cultural anthropologist Sara Roncaglia explains how they cater to the various dietary requirements of a diverse and increasingly global city, where the preparation and consumption of food is pervaded with religious and cultural significance. Developing the idea of "gastrosemantics" - a language with which to discuss the broader implications of cooking and eating - Roncaglia's study helps us to rethink our relationship to food at a local and global level.

Curried Cultures

Author : Krishnendu Ray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520952243
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Curried Cultures written by Krishnendu Ray and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although South Asian cookery and gastronomy has transformed contemporary urban foodscape all over the world, social scientists have paid scant attention to this phenomenon. Curried Cultures–a wide-ranging collection of essays–explores the relationship between globalization and South Asia through food, covering the cuisine of the colonial period to the contemporary era, investigating its material and symbolic meanings. Curried Cultures challenges disciplinary boundaries in considering South Asian gastronomy by assuming a proximity to dishes and diets that is often missing when food is a lens to investigate other topics. The book’s established scholarly contributors examine food to comment on a range of cultural activities as they argue that the practice of cooking and eating matter as an important way of knowing the world and acting on it.

Dying to Eat

Author : Candi K. Cann
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813174716
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Dying to Eat written by Candi K. Cann and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into these conduits to nourish the dead while they waited for the afterlife. Funeral cookies wrapped with printed prayers and poems meant to comfort mourners became popular in Victorian England; while in China, Japan, and Korea, it is customary to offer food not only to the bereaved, but to the deceased, with ritual dishes prepared and served to the dead. Dying to Eat is the first interdisciplinary book to examine the role of food in death, bereavement, and the afterlife. The contributors explore the phenomenon across cultures and religions, investigating topics including tombstone rituals in Buddhism, Catholicism, and Shamanism; the role of death in the Moroccan approach to food; and the role of funeral casseroles and church cookbooks in the Southern United States. This innovative collection not only offers food for thought regarding the theories and methods behind these practices but also provides recipes that allow the reader to connect to the argument through material experience. Illuminating how cooking and corpses both transform and construct social rituals, Dying to Eat serves as a fascinating exploration of the foodways of death and bereavement.

Food Governance in India

Author : Ruchita Beri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000554732
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Food Governance in India written by Ruchita Beri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers insights into the issues around food security, public health, equity and global governance. With a focus on India, it highlights the complex networks of sociopolitical, economic and agricultural challenges to ensure self-sufficiency in food production. Based on field research conducted across India and an in-depth study on government agencies and multilateral fora, this book connects and juxtaposes global, national and local narratives on food security and policy. It analyses issues ranging from climate change to gaps in the nation-wide public food distribution systems. Through interdisciplinary narratives on food insecurity and poverty, the book exposes the underlying problems within policy frameworks and offers solutions for greater accessibility and distribution of food supplies while combating climate variability and agrarian distress. The volume explores global food governance norms and India’s role in further shaping them. It will be of interest to students and researchers of public policy and governance, development studies, sociology, agriculture studies, public health and nutrition and economics.

A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food

Author : K. T. Achaya
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195658682
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food written by K. T. Achaya and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical listing of Indian food materials, cuisines and recipes of India, and the health aspects of the foods, which makes reference to the literature, archaeology, historical writing, botany and genetics of India.

Whose Samosa is it Anyway?

Author : Sonal Ved
Publisher : Penguin/Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780670092406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Whose Samosa is it Anyway? written by Sonal Ved and published by Penguin/Viking. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did the European traders come before the Arab conquerors? Can you say cinnamon is an Indian spice even though it first grew in Sri Lanka on the Indian subcontinent? What are the origins of chutney and samosa or of the fruit punch, and how are they connected to India? Who taught us how to make ladi pav, and how did the Burmese khow suey land up on the wedding menus of Marwaris? In Whose Samosa Is It Anyway the author tries to find an answer to the most basic questions about Indian food only to conclude that there is no such thing as a definitive Indian cuisine and that there are as many hyper-local Indian cuisines as there are Indian states.