Marmaris Kultur

From cannibalism to floating markets on the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, here you’ll find a comprehensive bibliography listing hundreds of incisive and engaging studies of the foods of peoples around the world, and how they are impacted by and in turn impact culure. Topics include ecology and food systems, eating attitudes, fasting and body image, festivals and feasting, famine and starvation, malnutrition and disease, meat-eating vs. vegetarian diets, the nutritional anthropology of nonhuman primates, food rituals, and food taboos. Regions covered include Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America (both European and indigenous), Oceania, South America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West and Central Asia. Articles address subjects that range from the dialetics relating to the sacred cows of India to the typical American diet of 100 years ago, from scholarship on contemporary American “foodways” (as opposed to folkways) to “soul” and traditional Southern food practices, customs, and holidays. Here you’ll also find references to such interesting articles as “Chinese Tables Manners: You Are How You Eat,”“The Origins and Ancient History of Wine,”“Food Classifications and the Diets of Young Children in Rural Egypt,” and “The Folk Foods of the Rio Grande Valley and of Northern Mexico.” As language, climate and history are to culture, so too is food—an engaging and appetizing area of study, to say the least.