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Nomadic Food: Anthropological and Historical Studies around the World

Nomadic Food: Anthropological and Historical Studies around the World

Williot, Jean Pierre
Bianquis, Isabelle

Hardcover

Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy

Cookbooks GeneralAnthropologyAgriculture

ISBN10: 1538115980
ISBN13: 9781538115985
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Oct 10 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this book, contributors examine the many meanings of the term 'nomad' through the study of food habits. Food and beverage products have become just as nomadic as other objects, such as telephones and computers, whereas in the past only food and money were able to move about with their carriers. Food industries have seized control of this trend to make it the characteristic feature of consumption outside the home - always faster and more convenient, the just-in-time meal: 'what I want, when I want, where I want', snacks, finger food, and street food. The terms reveal the contemporary modernity and spread of food practices, but they are only modified versions of older and more uncommon forms of behavior. Mobility, in the sense of multiple forms of moving about using public or individual, and possibly intermodal, means of transport, on spatial scales and temporal rhythms which are frequent and recurring but variable, responding to professional or leisure needs, can serve as a basic premise in order to gain insight into the concept of food nomadism.

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