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Anorexia, Bulimia, and the Embodiment of Capitalist Consumer Culture  

Alice Weinreb

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Sep 2024
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Food, Identity, and Body
Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa became major health concerns in the 1970s and 1980s, attracting particular attention from second-wave feminists because the conditions were perceived as ... More

Calorie Counting  

Nina Mackert

Oxford Research Encyclopedia:
Food, Identity, and Body, Food Science
[This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies. Please check back later for the full article.] In ... More

Candy and Sweets  

Susan Benjamin

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Food, Identity, and Body
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Children’s Food: Historical, Sociocultural, and Public Health Perspectives  

Tina Moffat

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Jul 2024
Oxford Research Encyclopedia:
Food and the Humanities
The category of children’s food was invented in the 20th century with the rise of nutrition sciences, the industrialization of food, and changing societal attitudes to children and ... More

Class Mobility among US Farmworkers  

Alex Korsunsky

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Aug 2024
Oxford Research Encyclopedia:
Food History and Anthropology
Racial hierarchies have defined US agriculture from its beginnings, structuring access to land and imposing boundaries between farmers and farmworkers. Racialized exclusion from other ... More

Colonial Era British Food and Spice  

Amanda E. Herbert

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Aug 2024
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Food History and Anthropology
Growth of the British colonial system also meant big changes to British diets and to the spice and flavor of British food. Britain’s actions in invading, colonizing, and settling the ... More

Corporate Concentration in the Food Industry  

Steve Striffler

Food industry concentration, or the control of a relatively small number of corporations over the food system, has relatively deep historical origins, even if it has reached unprecedented ... More

Culinary Tourism  

José López Ganem and Alicia Kennedy

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Oct 2024
For practitioners and scholars, culinary tourism is recognized as the voluntary decision to interact with foodways and foodstuffs outside of an individual’s daily places or habits. ... More

Edible Insects  

Gina Louise Hunter

Insects have been an important part of the human diet from time immemorial. Although they are not a common food item in Western cultures, insects contribute to the traditional diets of many ... More

The Ethics of Veganism and Plant-Based Diets  

Carlo Alvaro

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Aug 2024
Humans have been consuming meat and other animal products for millennia. Although people have been following vegetarian diets for just as long, for the past fifty years or so, many academic ... More

The Ethiopian and Yemeni Roots of Coffee  

Michel Tuchscherer

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Sep 2024
The beginnings of the history of coffee can be found in two neighboring countries separated only by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Coffee’s history starts before its consumption in ... More

Family Farm Myths and the Effacement of Labor  

Adam Calo

The debate on the role of family farmers in global food security often overlooks deep mythologies that shape our understanding of the food system and constrain our policy imagination. Two ... More

Fat  

Azita Chellappoo

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Food, Identity, and Body
[This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies. Please check back later for the full article.] ... More

Fat Stigma in the United States  

Amy Erdman Farrell

Fat stigma has deep roots in US and Western cultures, dating back centuries. Whatever leniency or even valorization given to a fat body for its sign of wealth or healthy fecundity was ... More

Food and Ethnicity  

Krishnendu Ray

Ethnic food is a slippery concept, used in various anglophone publications by the 1960s, peaking in the 1980s, and no longer used in major US metropolitan newspapers by the 2020s. It came ... More

Food and Nationalism in India  

Benjamin Siegel

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Sep 2024
The imbrication of food and nationalism in India and South Asia was an implicit concern in early anthropological literature on primarily Hindu foodways. In time, this theme became more ... More

Food and Philosophy  

Andrea Borghini

The philosophy of food is an emerging field of contemporary philosophical scholarship, which distinguishes itself for its highly inter- and cross-disciplinary orientation as well as for the ... More

Food and Religious Rituals  

Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus

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Jun 2024
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Food History and Anthropology
Food rituals, whether articulated intentionally or performed unconsciously in our biologically necessary acts of eating, do nothing less than construct and maintain our fundamental ... More

Food and UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Program  

Jenny L. Herman and Raúl Matta

Oxford Research Encyclopedia:
Food Globalization and Industrialization
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Food as a Weapon  

Ellen Messer and Marc J. Cohen

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Jun 2024
The use of food as a weapon is as old as written records. Siege, blockade, and starvation are well-documented military strategies, as are political strategies that use food as a tool to ... More

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