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Llamas and Alpacas

Daniel W. Gade

Daniel W. Gade

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

Encyclopedia entry

...The llama (Lama glama) and alpaca (Lama pacos) are among the few domesticated ungulates whose most important function has not been that of providing food for the people who control them. The llama...

Social and Cultural Logics

Eduardo P. Archetti

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Eduardo P. Archetti was Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Valentina Napolitano

Valentina Napolitano

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Peter Worsley

Peter Worsley

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Guinea-pigs : Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador

Berg, 2001

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...In Chapter 2 I discussed the concept of cultural and social complexity. The first refers to the quantity of information produced and circulated in a particular setting, in other words the knowledge that actors use to face the world...

Domestic Workers and Pollution in Brazil

Livia Barbosa

Livia Barbosa is Professor of Anthropology and Research Director at the Center of Advanced Studies of the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has written extensively on food trends and habits in Brazil. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Dirt : New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination

I.B.Tauris, 2012

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...Brazilian middle-class families, like those in other South American countries, still enjoy the possibility of help with housework on a regular basis. This help comes predominantly in the form of live-in maids (empregada que dorme) or daily...

Conclusions

Jane Fajans

Jane Fajans is an Associate Professor at Cornell University, USA. She is the author of They Make Themselves: Work and Play among the Baining of Papua New Guinea and editor of Exchanging Products: Producing Exchange, Oceania Monograph 43. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Brazilian Food : Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines

Berg, 2012

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...Brazil as a Nation Riding buses across Brazil, one sees the landscape outside the window often transforming dramatically. The houses and stores, roadside stands, and goods for sale all change form as the landscape and climate alter...

Lupines: Europe and Andes

Ken Albala

Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific and chair of the Food Studies MA program in San Francisco. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Beans : A History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2007

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...The lupine is the oddest rebel among beans. For those who have never encountered them, they break every rule known about bean cookery. To start with, they are poisonous. Their bitter alkaloids can affect the central nervous system, causing...

Introduction

Emma-Jayne Abbots

Emma-Jayne Abbots is a senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Agency of Eating : Mediation, Food and the Body

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...This book explores how eating, as an embodied experience, mediates and is mediated by the relationship between food’s matter and meaning. My first aim is to tease out how the human eating body, the material stuff of food, and cultural...

Potatoes (White)

Ellen Messer

Ellen Messer

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...This chapter presents the paradoxical history of the potato (Solanum tuberosum) in human food systems. It is now the fourth most important world food crop, surpassed only by wheat, rice, and maize. In five centuries, this diverse...

Approaches to Food and Migration: Rootedness, Being and Belonging

Emma-Jayne Abbots

Emma-Jayne Abbots is a senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Handbook of Food and Anthropology

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Introduction Food plays a significant role in the social lives of diasporas: it can create a sense of continued belonging and reiterate affiliations to ‘home’. Following debates on food, identity, ethnicity...

Chile

Mary Gunderson

Mary Gunderson

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Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia Volume 2 : The Americas

© ABC-Clio Inc, 2011

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...Overview The Republic of Chile has 15 provinces; it stretches 2,640 miles in length but is little more than 100 miles wide, and it is bordered by the Pacific Ocean and the Andes range. Its geographic...

Embodying Country-City Relations: The Chola Cuencana in Highland Ecuador

Emma-Jayne Abbots

Emma-Jayne Abbots is a senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food Between the Country and the City : Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...The people from the campo [countryside] have simple hearts, and now they have this one opportunity to do something big, something different. But I don’t want the same things. I’m from Cuenca, from the city; there is a big difference between...