Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture

by B.W. Higman

Book Overview

The
historical study of food and the anthropology of food are recent and growing
fields of scholarly inquiry. An understanding of these aspects of life can
reveal much about a culture's crop production, economy, preparation methods,
festivals, foodways, history, and environmental care and degradation. This
beautifully illustrated book by one of the Caribbean's pre-eminent historians,
B.W. Higman, sheds new light on food and cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9766409110
• ISBN13: 9789766409111
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.1" x 10.1"