01887cam a22002538a 45000010008000000030006000080050017000140080041000310200018000720350017000900400071001070410008001780500022001861000016002082450070002242600028002943000028003225000032003505040064003825201092004466500018015386500040015566500037015966710819CaAEU20250516101612.0090821r20101998enk           000 0 eng    a9781844674381  aocn317919614  aUKMbengcUKMdBTCTAdYDXCPdEUFdAMHdUKMGBdBDXdIBIdOCLCFdAEU  aeng 4aCB251b.G584 2010  aGoody, Jack10aFood and loveb: a cultural history of East and WestcJack Goody.  aLondon :bVerso,c2010.  aix, 305 pages ;c24 cm.  aOriginally published: 1998.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index.  aThe development of romantic love, the evolution of national and regional cuisines, the globalization of Chinese food, the histories of various taboos on certain types of food and drink, the uniqueness of the European family—such are the fascinating and diverse themes Goody addresses in Food and Love. Starting with a sustained discussion of the debates on social development in the thought of classic theorists as well as contemporary historical and sociological notions of modernization, Goody goes on to tease out the general historical processes embedded in the most intimate recesses of our lives. In a final bracing section challenging dominant relativist conceptions, Goody considers the difficulties and complexities of cross-cultural and comparative analysis, and he picks apart the doubts involved in the very process of representation and symbolic communication. Throughout this collection, Goody demonstrates that the ethnocentricity of much of Western scholarship has distorted not only the comprehension of the East but also developments in the European past and present. 0aEast and West 0aFood habitsvCross-cultural studies 0aFamiliesvCross-cultural studies