02008cam a22003018a 4500 6710819 CaAEU 20250516101612.0 090821r20101998enk 000 0 eng 9781844674381 ocn317919614 exclude UKM eng UKM BTCTA YDXCP EUF AMH UKMGB BDX IBI OCLCF AEU eng CNKUC CB251 .G584 2010 Goody, Jack 25252 Food and love : a cultural history of East and West Jack Goody. London : Verso, 2010. ix, 305 pages ; 24 cm. Originally published: 1998. Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index. The 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. East and West 25253 Food habits Cross-cultural studies 25254 Families Cross-cultural studies 25255 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-05-16 0 CB251 GOO B05877 2025-05-16 1 2025-05-16 1 4673 4673