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Food Cultures of India
$88.00
Author: | Edited by Sarit K. Chaudhuri, Debarshi Prasad Nath and Dhurjjati Sarma |
ISBN 13: | 9789360808556 |
Binding: | Hardbound |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2024 |
Subject: | Home Science and Hotel Management |
About the Book
Food Studies has emerged as an important interdisciplinary field of enquiry, situated at the convergence point of many disciplines. Food Studies is not just about the study of food itself. One could argue that the trajectory of development of Food Studies has been along the similar lines as Cultural Studies (which also, is not only about the study of culture per se). Food Studies deals with more than the mere production, consumption, aesthetic appreciation, and cataloguing of food-related practices. It provides the vantage point to look at the relationship between food and people from the variety of perspectives offered by disciplines, such as arts, science, management, technology, sociology, cultural studies, economics, health, social justice, literature, anthropology, and history. In the context of these exciting developments, the present volume brings together a collection of essays written by academics and scholars belonging to a wide range of disciplines, and who have brought in their subject-expertise towards analysing various dimensions of Food Studies, covering its interface with folklore, social practices, fictional representation, famines, memory, and media studies. About the Author Sarit K. Chaudhuri is currently working as a Professor of Anthropology and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences in Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh. He was the former Director of IGRMS, Bhopal. Recently, the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, gave him Panchanan Mitra Award for his contribution to Indian Anthropology. He has published 30 books and 62 papers in various journals and edited books. His prime research engagements are with the issues concerning indigenous religion, art, identity, cultural heritage, dynamics of India’s North East borderlands and ethnographic museum.