Food for Thought : Nourishment, Culture, Meaning |
Autore | Stano Simona |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 pages) |
Altri autori (Persone) | BentleyAmy |
Collana | Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress Ser. |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-030-81115-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Foreword: Good to Think With -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Food for Thought: An Introduction -- References -- Part I Food, Taste, and Global Cultures -- 2 Alimentation: A General Semiotic Model of Socialising Food -- 2.1 Alimentation as a Scientific Problem -- 2.2 The Alimentary Text -- 2.3 A General Semiotic Model for the Analysis of Alimentation -- References -- 3 On the Face of Food -- Abstract -- 3.1 Sweet Simulacra -- 3.2 Sweet Sacrifices -- 3.3 A Semiotics of Sacrifice -- 3.4 Sacrifice and Sacred Face -- 3.5 En-visaging and De-facing -- 3.6 Heads -- 3.7 A Patterned Geography of Head-Eating -- 3.8 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Phenomenology of a Symbolic Dish: What Su Porceddu Teaches Us About Food, Meaning, and Identification -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Cutting or Deconstructing? On the (Apparent) Opposition Between Common and Scientific Perception of a Symbolic Dish -- 4.3 Continuity or Discontinuity? Contemporary Assessment of the Bone and Bronze Fragments Evidence -- 4.4 One's Own or Someone Else's? Eating as Speaking: The Inedible and the Incomprehensible as Forms of the Untranslatable -- 4.5 Knowledge or Taste? Or How the Suckling Pig Makes the Nation -- 4.6 Memory or Forgetfulness? Semiopolitics of the Contemporary Piglet -- References -- 5 Food Heritage, Memory and Cultural Identity in Saudi Arabia: The Case of Jeddah -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Food, Memory and Identity -- 5.2 The Research Perspective -- 5.3 Saudi Arabia's Cultural Identity Between Gradual Development and "Cultural Explosions" -- 5.3.1 Saudi Arabia. Bedouins' Diet and Food -- 5.4 Jeddah "Ghair" -- 5.4.1 Exploring Jeddah: Food as the Sign of Epochal Changes and Connections -- 5.4.2 The Efficacy of the Discourse on Food Heritage -- 5.4.3 The Role of Religious Rituals in Remembering and Forgetting.
5.4.4 Adaptation, Authenticity and Identity Crisis -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Bittersweet Home: The Sweets Craft in the Urban Life of Tripoli, Lebanon -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.1.1 What Are Sweets? -- 6.1.2 Historical Overview -- 6.1.3 Hallab -- 6.1.4 Methodology -- 6.2 City and Sweets in Time and Space -- 6.3 Sweets in Society -- 6.3.1 Nutrition and Protocol -- 6.4 Product as Palimpsest -- 6.4.1 Innovation and Health -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part II Law, Power, and Media -- 7 "An Act Authorizing Sterilization of Persons Convicted of Murder, Rape, Chicken Stealing…": Southern Chicken Theft Laws as an Expression of Racialised Political Violence -- 7.1 Missouri House Bill No. 290 -- 7.2 A Foundation of Racist Stereotypes -- 7.3 Chicken Theft Punishment Under Slavery -- 7.4 Chicken Theft Laws Under Reconstruction and the Early Jim Crow South -- 7.5 Chicken Theft Laws During the Progressive Era -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Free Breakfast and Taco Trucks: Case Studies of Food as Rhetorical Homology in Political Discourse -- 8.1 Brief History of Food as Political Rhetoric -- 8.2 Food and Political Rhetoric: 1970-2016 -- 8.3 The Rise of Social Media: 2016-Present -- 8.4 I-Collective -- 8.5 Power of Social Media -- 8.6 Conclusion -- References -- 9 "Superfine Quality, Absolute Purity, Daily Freshness": The Language of Advertising in United Cattle Products' Marketing of Tripe to British Workers in the 1920s and 1930s -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 United Cattle Products -- 9.3 Prejudice -- 9.4 Advertising Tripe -- 9.4.1 Textual Thematic Content -- 9.4.2 Images and the Concept of Re-contextualisation -- 9.4.3 Advertising Tripeand the Hierarchy of Needs -- 9.5 Disdain, Disgust, and Ridicule -- 9.6 The Decline of Tripe -- 9.7 Conclusion -- References -- 10 New Generations and Axiologies of Food in Cinema and New Media -- 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 Food, Adolescents, Media, Culture -- 10.3 New Generations, Values and New Media: A Model -- References -- Part III Nutrition and Culture -- 11 Beyond Nutrition: Meanings, Narratives, Myths -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Food, Health, and "Myths" -- 11.3 Nutrition(ism) in Contemporary Gastromania -- 11.4 Organic Versus GM Food: The Nature/Culture Myth -- 11.5 Conclusion -- References -- 12 Laughing Alone with Salad: Nutrition-Based Inequity in Women's Diet and Wellness Media -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Women Laughing Alone with Salad -- 12.3 Sad Salads: Mixing Negative Calorie Lore with Lack and Normative Discontent -- 12.4 From Sad Salads to Power Bowls: Gender in the Shift from Diet to Wellness -- 12.5 Conclusion: Why "Salad is Feminine" Matters -- References -- 13 Virtue and Disease: Narrative Accounts of Orthorexia Nervosa -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Birth of a Disease -- 13.3 ON and Contemporary Eating -- 13.4 Criteria in Context -- 13.5 Recovering Orthorexics Speak -- References -- Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Food for Thought |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910502664503321 |
Stano Simona | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2021 | ||
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Food for Thought : Nourishment, Culture, Meaning / / edited by Simona Stano, Amy Bentley |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 pages) |
Disciplina | 394.12 |
Collana | Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress |
Soggetto topico |
Social sciences - Philosophy
Sociology Nutrition Food Food science Social Philosophy Sociology of Food and Nutrition Food Studies |
ISBN | 3-030-81115-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Food for thought: An introduction (Simona Stano) -- Part 1: Food, taste, and global cultures -- Chapter 2. Alimentation: A general semiotic model of socialising food (Ugo Volli) -- Chapter 3. On the face of food (Massimo Leone) -- Chapter 4. Phenomenology of a symbolic dish: What Su Porceddu teaches us about food, meaning, and identification (Franciscu Sedda) -- Chapter 5. Food heritage, memory and cultural identity in Saudi Arabia: The case of Jeddah (Cristina Greco) -- Chapter 6. Bittersweet home: The sweets craft in the urban life of Tripoli, Lebanon (Henry Peck) -- Part 2: Law, power, and media -- Chapter 7. “An act authorizing sterilization of persons convicted of murder, rape, chicken stealing...”: Southern chicken theft laws as an expression of racialised political violence (Daniel Thoennessen) -- Chapter 8. Free breakfast and Taco trucks: Case studies of food as rhetorical homology in political discourse (Suzanne Cope) -- Chapter 9. “Superfine quality, absolute purity, daily freshness”: The language of advertising in united cattle products’ marketing of tripe to British workers in the 1920s and 1930s (David Bell) -- Chapter 10. New generations and axiologies of food in cinema and new media (Bruno Surace) -- Part 3: Nutrition and culture. Chapter 11. Beyond nutrition: Meanings, narratives, myths (Simona Stano) -- Chapter 12. Laughing alone with salad: Nutrition-based inequity in women’s diet and wellness media (Emily Contois) -- Chapter 13. Virtue and disease: Narrative accounts of orthorexia nervosa (Lauren Wynne). |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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