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Food between the country and the city : ethnographies of a changing global foodscape

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  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural (BISACSH)
  • Food habits--Social aspects (LCSH)
  • Local foods--Social aspects (LCSH)
  • Food--Social aspects (LCSH)
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (BISACSH)
  • Food industry and trade--Social aspects (LCSH)

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"At a time when the relationship between 'the country' and 'the city' is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams' classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect their changing relationship but have also been used to alter the very dynamics through which countryside and cities, and the food grown and eaten within them, are produced and sustained. Leading scholars in the study of food offer ethnographic studies of peasant homesteads, family farms, community gardens, state food industries, transnational supermarkets, planning offices, tourist boards, and government ministries in locales across the globe. This fascinating collection demonstrates that, whether categorized as rural or urban, food around the world today has been shaped by, and in turn has shaped, historical processes through which the country, the city, and the relationship between these places and their foods have continually, and sometimes dramatically, been reconstituted.This text provides vital new insight into the contested dynamics of food and will be key reading for upper-level students and scholars of food studies, anthropology, history and geography"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction : approaching food and foodways between the country and the city through the work of Raymond Williams / Nuno Domingos and José Manuel Sobral and Harry G. West -- Conflicting wine narratives : pleasant perspectives and the struggles in the construction of Alentejo wine / Nuno Domingos -- Embodying country-city relations : the Chola Cuencana in highland Ecuador / Emma-Jayne Abbots -- Bringing the city to the country : supermarket expansion, food practices and aesthetics in rural South Africa / Elizabeth Hull -- Bringing it all back home : reconnecting the country and the city through heritage food tourism in the French Auvergne / Harry G. West -- Coming to terms with urban agriculture : a self critique / Laura B. Delind -- Urban hunger and the home village : how Lilongwe's migrant poor stay food secure / Johan Pottier -- Perceptions of the "country" through the migration of "City"-grown crops : Guinean food in Bissau and in Lisbon / Maria Abranches -- The country, the nation and the region in representations of Portuguese food and cuisine / José Manuel Sobral -- Hazz Al-quhuf : an urban satire on peasant life and food from 17th century Egypt / Sami Zubaida -- Reflecting authenticity : "grandmother's yogurt" : between Bulgaria and Japan / Maria Yotova -- Unpacking the Mediterranean diet : agriculture, food and health / Monica Truninger and Dulce Freire.

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Food between the country and the city : ethnographies of a changing global foodscape

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:16:18.106141+00:00
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