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Eating Together
Alice P. Julier
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Description for Eating Together
Hardback. An insightful map of the landscape of social meals, this book argues that the ways in which we eat together play a central role in social life. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
An insightful map of the landscape of social meals, Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality argues that the ways in which Americans eat together play a central role in social life in the United States. Delving into a wide range of research, Alice P. Julier analyzes etiquette and entertaining books from the past century and conducts interviews and observations of dozens of hosts and guests at dinner parties, potlucks, and buffets. She finds that when people invite friends, neighbors, or family members to share meals within their households, social inequalities involving race, economics, and gender reveal themselves in interesting ways: ... Read more
An insightful map of the landscape of social meals, Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality argues that the ways in which Americans eat together play a central role in social life in the United States. Delving into a wide range of research, Alice P. Julier analyzes etiquette and entertaining books from the past century and conducts interviews and observations of dozens of hosts and guests at dinner parties, potlucks, and buffets. She finds that when people invite friends, neighbors, or family members to share meals within their households, social inequalities involving race, economics, and gender reveal themselves in interesting ways: ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252037634
SKU
V9780252037634
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Ref
99-1
About Alice P. Julier
Alice Julier is an associate professor and the master's program director of food studies at Chatham University.
Reviews for Eating Together
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014. "I eagerly read Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality, engulfing new insights offered in her cultural and sociological analysis of the significance of domestic hospitality in people's lives. An excellent, much needed contribution to food studies as well as sociology and gender studies."
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