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Food And Language: Discourses and Foodways across Cultures

Call no.

: 641.30014 RIL

Author

: Kathleen C. Riley & Amy L. Paugh

Contributor

: Fezzanne Anak Raymond Umpu

Summary

The human mouth is a paradoxical organ, used for opposed activities of speaking and eating, communication and commensality, meaning and materiality. This pioneering textbook, organized as a series of encounters between food and language, serve as a unique and welcome introduction to both linguistic anthropology and the antropology of food. Food and Language: Discourses and Foodways across Culture explores in innovative ways how food and language are intertwined across cultures and social settings. This book serve as an ideal introduction for courses on food, language, and food-and-language in anthropolgy departments, linguistic departments, and across the humanities and social sciences. It will appeal to any reader interested in the semiotic interplay between food and language.