Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes

by Amy E Guptill, Denise A Copelton, Betsy Lucal, et al.

This popular and engaging text, now revised in a second edition, offers readers a social perspective on food, food practices, and the modern food system. It engages readers' curiosity by highlighting several paradoxes: how food is both individual and social, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary global era, comes from everywhere but nowhere in particular. With updates and enhancements throughout, the new edition provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509501835
• ISBN13: 9781509501830
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"