ISBN:
0857854356
,
9780857854353
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
Series Statement:
Materializing culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als De Solier, Isabelle Food and the self
Keywords:
Food Social aspects
;
Food Economic aspects
;
Food supply
;
Food consumption
;
Material culture
;
Food & society
;
Sociology & anthropology
;
TV & society
;
Cultural studies
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Food consumption
;
Food ; Economic aspects
;
Food ; Social aspects
;
Food supply
;
Material culture
Abstract:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Foodies: Material Culture and the Self in Postindustrial Society; 1 Moralities of Productive Leisure and Material Culture; 2 Learning Things: Material Media and Gastronomic Education; 3 Consuming Things: Material Cultures and Moralities of Consumption; 4 Dining Out: Restaurants, Serious Consumption, and Molecular Gastronomy; 5 Shopping: Slow Food, Ethical Consumption, and the Morality of Quality; 6 Producing Things: Material Media and Moralities of Production; 7 Cooking: Manual Leisure and Material Production; 8 Blogging: Digital Leisure and Material Media ProductionAfterword Materializing Moral Selves; Bibliography; Index.
Abstract:
We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people strive to form meaningful selves through both the consumption and production of material culture in leisure. Focusing on the material culture of food, the book explores these theoretical questions through ethnography of those for whom food is central to their self: 'foodies'. It examines what foodies do, and why they do it, through an in-depth study of their lived experiences. It uncovers how food offers a means of shaping the self not as a consumer but as an amateur who engages in both the production and consumption of material culture, taking a professional approach which reveals the moralities of productive leisure in self-formation. The chapters examine a variety of practices, from fine dining and shopping to cooking and blogging, including rare data on how people use media such as cookbooks, food television, and digital food media in their everyday life
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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