{"product_id":"9781847889096","title":"Food: Ethnographic Encounters","description":"Food preparation, consumption, and exchange are eminently social \u003cbr\u003epractices, and experiencing another cuisine often provides our first \u003cbr\u003eencounter with a different culture. This volume presents fascinating \u003cbr\u003eessays about cooking, eating, and sharing food, by anthropologists \u003cbr\u003eworking in many parts of the world, exploring what they learned by \u003cbr\u003eeating with others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are accounts of specific experiences - \u003cbr\u003eof cooking in Mombasa, shopping for organic produce in Vienna, eating \u003cbr\u003evegetarian in Vietnam, raising and selling chickens in Hong Kong, and of\u003cbr\u003e refugees subsisting on food aid. With a special focus on the experience\u003cbr\u003e and challenge of ethnographic fieldwork, the essays cover a wide range \u003cbr\u003eof topics in food studies and anthropology, including food safety and \u003cbr\u003efood security, cultural diversity and globalization, colonial histories \u003cbr\u003eand contemporary identities, and changing ecological, social, and \u003cbr\u003epolitical relations across cultures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFood: Ethnographic Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e offers readers a broad view of the vibrancy of local and global food \u003cbr\u003ecultures, and provides an accessible introduction to both food studies \u003cbr\u003eand contemporary ethnography.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131804270832,"sku":"9781847889096","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781847889096_p0.jpg?v=1763749684","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781847889096","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}