Anthropology of Food & Drink : a guide to library resources
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Related guides which may be helpful:
Gastronomy
Globalisation and Anthropology
Starting Points
When you need to define your topic and/or get some background reading try consulting a dictionary or encyclopedia on food habits.
The guide to Anthropology dictionaries/encyclopedias will help if you need explanations of anthropological terminology or theory.
To find overviews on the subject try the following:
- Anthropology of food & eating (2002) [electronic]
[Concentrates primarily on works published after 1984 but also reviews landmark studies prior to the 1980s. Published in vol.31 of the Annual Review of Anthropology. Also available in print format]
Contributions to Anthropology of Food and Eating (2006) [electronic]
[A collection of articles published in vol.12(1) of Anthropological notebooks]
Cultural politics of food and eating: a reader (2005) [print]
[A collection of readings that uses the study of food as a vehicle for addressing broad themes that are emerging in social anthropology]
Food and culture: a reader (2008) [print]
[A collection of articles about food and culture that combine theory with ethnographic and historical data]
- Researching food habits (2004) [print]
[Offers guidance for researchers working in the field of anthropological perspectives on food, diet and nutrition]
- Food and eating: an anthropological perspective
[by Robin Fox, Social Issues Research Centre, UK]
Finding Books Using The Library Catalogue
Books can be found by searching the library catalogue. Keyword searching is probably the best way of identifying material and your results will be maximised by using keyword searching techniques such as truncation and Boolean searching, and by incorporating subject headings into your search where appropriate. Here are some examples on how to construct searches:
- food and identity
- "drinking customs"
- "food preferences"
- "food habits" and italy
- food and (anthropol? or ethnograph?)
- consumption and food and (anthropol? or ethnograph?)
- "food habits" and globali?ation
- food and gender and anthropol?
Finding Journal Articles Using Databases & Bibliographies
Journal articles can be found through databases listed in the Databases for Anthropology guide - Sociological Abstracts, Academic OneFile and Academic Search Premier are probably the best starting points for articles written in anthropological journals, and Pubmed for international coverage of biomedical journals. Factiva a large international full text news database. Great for food writing and reviews.
Also try the World Food Habits bibliography which is a list of resources for the anthropological study of food and culture and the electronic journal Anthropology of food is worth a look especially as it is not yet indexed in the electronic databases listed above.
Anthropology of food
[A bilingual webjournal which aims to publish research on food in both Anthropology and Sociology. Produced by a network of European academic researchers]
Web Resources
The following are starting points for resources on the Web
Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)
[A multidisciplinary international organization dedicated to exploring the complex relationships among food, culture, and society]
FOST (Social & Cultural Food Studies)
[A research group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Aims to foster and consolidate international multidisciplinary food research]
International Commission on the Anthropology of Food (ICAF)
[The aims of ICAF are to promote and coordinate collaboration and research in biological and social anthropology in regard to the sciences of food and nutrition, fostering in particular a pluridisciplinary approach]
McDonaldization of Society
[An internet study guide prepared for Pine Forge Press as a teaching resource for the 5th ed of George Ritzer's "The McDonaldization of Society". Provides links to full text articles, book reveiws, general references and web resources]
Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink
[A research centre at the University of Adelaide]
Food and Drink in the Yahoo Directory
Slow Food
[Official website of the Slow Food organization]
Terra Madre
[An international movement which promotes local and regional food cultures. Includes a searchable directory of food communities, cooks and universities who subscribe to the movement's principles. Also included are interviews with proponents of the movement]
Last update: May 12 2009 Helen Attar
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