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ISBN 13 | 9781474283434 |
ISBN 10 | 1474283438 |
Author | Professor Anne Murcott |
Language | English |
Book Description | The last 20 years have seen a burgeoning of social scientific and historical research on food. The field has drawn in experts to investigate topics such as: the way globalisation affects the food supply; what cookery books can (and cannot) tell us |
About the Author | Anne Murcott is Honorary Professorial Research Associate, Food Studies Centre, Department of Anthropology, SOAS University of London, Professor Emerita, London South Bank University and Honorary Professor, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Nottingham. Among her books is The Sociology of Food: Eating, Diet and Culture (with Stephen Mennell and Anneke van Otterloo). In 2009 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala.Warren Belasco is Professor Emeritus of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. He is the author of Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry, Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, and Food: The Key Concepts. He has edited Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (with Philip Scranton), and Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart (with Roger Horowitz).Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the editor of Changing Families, Changing Food (2009), co-editor of The Handbook of Food Research (2013) and lead author of Food Words: Essays in Culinary Culture (2013). He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Victoria Medal in 2007 and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Besides his academic work, he also chairs the Social Science Research Committee of the UK Food Standards Agency. |
Publication Date | 24 March 2016 |
Number of Pages | 680 pages |
The Handbook of Food Research