04282nam 2200793Ia 450 991095532460332120200520144314.0978067405572806740557219780674069879067406987010.4159/harvard.9780674064737(CKB)2560000000082602(StDuBDS)AH24437893(SSID)ssj0000657763(PQKBManifestationID)11371380(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000657763(PQKBWorkID)10680612(PQKB)10691787(MiAaPQ)EBC3301098(DE-B1597)178149(OCoLC)794670879(OCoLC)840445381(DE-B1597)9780674064737(Au-PeEL)EBL3301098(CaPaEBR)ebr10568042(Perlego)1147188(EXLCZ)99256000000008260220111206d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe omnivorous mind our evolving relationship with food /John S. Allen1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20121 online resource (319 p. ) illFormerly CIP.Uk9780674064737 0674064739 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CRISPY -- 2. THE TWO-LEGGED, LARGE-BRAINED, SMALL-FACED, SUPEROMNIVOROUS APE -- 3. FOOD AND THE SENSUOUS BRAIN -- 4. EATING MORE, EATING LESS -- 5. MEMORIES OF FOOD AND EATING -- 6. CATEGORIES: GOOD FOOD, BAD FOOD, YES FOOD, NO FOOD -- 7. FOOD AND THE CREATIVE JOURNEY -- 8. THEORY OF MIND, THEORY OF FOOD? -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEXIn this gustatory tour of human history, John S. Allen demonstrates that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights into human beings' biological and cultural heritage. We humans eat a wide array of plants and animals, but unlike other omnivores we eat with our minds as much as our stomachs. This thoughtful relationship with food is part of what makes us a unique species, and makes culinary cultures diverse. Not even our closest primate relatives think about food in the way Homo sapiens does. We are superomnivores whose palates reflect the natural history of our species. Drawing on the work of food historians and chefs, anthropologists and neuroscientists, Allen starts out with the diets of our earliest ancestors, explores cooking's role in our evolving brain, and moves on to the preoccupations of contemporary foodies. The Omnivorous Mind delivers insights into food aversions and cravings, our compulsive need to label foods as good or bad, dietary deviation from "healthy" food pyramids, and cross-cultural attitudes toward eating (with the French, bien sûr, exemplifying the pursuit of gastronomic pleasure).To explain, for example, the worldwide popularity of crispy foods, Allen considers first the food habits of our insect-eating relatives. He also suggests that the sound of crunch may stave off dietary boredom by adding variety to sensory experience. Or perhaps fried foods, which we think of as bad for us, interject a frisson of illicit pleasure. When it comes to eating, Allen shows, there's no one way to account for taste.BrainEvolutionCognitionDietPsychological aspectsFood habitsPsychological aspectsFoodPsychological aspectsHuman evolutionNutritionPsychological aspectsOmnivoresBrainEvolution.Cognition.DietPsychological aspects.Food habitsPsychological aspects.FoodPsychological aspects.Human evolution.NutritionPsychological aspects.Omnivores.616.85/26Allen John S(John Scott),1961-1811816MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955324603321The omnivorous mind4366748UNINA03693nam 2200745Ia 450 991095981860332120200520144314.097866130287169781283028714128302871997802520900280252090020(CKB)3390000000006571(OCoLC)709664706(CaPaEBR)ebrary10603904(SSID)ssj0000544846(PQKBManifestationID)11335575(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544846(PQKBWorkID)10536604(PQKB)11541100(MiAaPQ)EBC3414109(MdBmJHUP)muse23707(Au-PeEL)EBL3414109(CaPaEBR)ebr10603904(CaONFJC)MIL302871(OCoLC)923495841(Perlego)2382575(EXLCZ)99339000000000657120100126d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrScreening Cuba film criticism as political performance during the Cold War /Hector Amaya1st ed.Urbana University of Illinois Pressc20101 online resource (249 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780252035593 0252035593 9780252077487 0252077482 Includes bibliographical references and index.Staging film criticism. Cuban culture, institutions, policies, and citizens -- The Cuban revolutionary hermeneutics : criticism and citizenship -- The U.S. field of culture -- U.S. criticism, dissent, and hermeneutics -- Performing film criticism. Memories of underdevelopment -- Lucia -- One way or another -- Portrait of Teresa -- Conclusion.Hector Amaya advances into new territory in Latin American and U.S. cinema studies in this innovative analysis of the differing critical receptions of Cuban film in Cuba and the United States during the Cold War. Synthesizing film reviews, magazine articles, and other primary documents, Screening Cuba compares Cuban and U.S. reactions to four Cuban films: Memories of Underdevelopment, Lucia, One Way or Another, and Portrait of Teresa. In examining cultural production through the lens of the Cold War, Amaya reveals how contrasting interpretations of Cuban and U.S. critics are the result of the political cultures in which they operated. While Cuban critics viewed the films as powerful symbols of the social promises of the Cuban revolution, liberal and leftist American critics found meaning in the films as representations of anti-establishment progressive values and Cold War discourses. By contrasting the hermeneutics of Cuban and U.S. culture, criticism, and citizenship, Amaya argues that critical receptions of political films constitute a kind of civic public behavior. 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