Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology Tapa dura - 1982

Cambridge University Press, 1982. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0521244552

Cambridge,, 1982. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 8vo. pp viii, 253. Original publisher's purple cloth, lettered gilt on spine. ISBN: 0521244552

E-243: Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 1982. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 1982. 260 pgs. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous anthropological work that Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He criticises those approaches which overlook the comparative historical dimension of culinary, and other, cultural differences that emerge in class societies, both of which elements he particularly emphasises in this book.… Leer más

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