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The Practice of Eating (Hardcover)
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This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the
understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to
approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new
concepts which will help reshape and reorient common
understandings. Leading sociologist of food, Alan Warde, deals both
with abstract issues about theories of practice and substantive
analyses of aspects of eating, demonstrating how theories of
practice can be elaborated and systematically applied to the
activity of eating. The book falls into two parts. The first part
establishes a basis for a practice-theoretic account of eating.
Warde reviews research on eating, introduces theories of practice
and constructs eating as a scientific object. The second part
develops key concepts for the analysis of eating as a practice,
showing how concepts like habit, routine, embodiment, repetition
and convention can be applied to explain how eating is organised
and coordinated through the generation, reproduction and
transformation of a multitude of individual performances. The
Practice of Eating thus addresses both substantive problems
concerning the explanation of food habits and currently
controversial issues in social theory, illustrated by detailed
empirical analysis of some aspects of contemporary culinary life.
It will become required reading for students and scholars of food
and consumption in a wide range of disciplines, from sociology,
anthropology and cultural studies to food studies, culinary studies
and nutrition science.
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