The Restaurants Book - Ethnographies of Where we Eat (Hardcover, English)

Is the restaurant an ideal total social phenomenon for the contemporary world? Restaurants are framed by the logic of the market, but promise experiences not of the market. Restaurants are key sites for practices of social distinction, where chefs struggle for recognition as stars and patrons insist on seeing and being seen. Restaurants define urban landscapes, reflecting and shaping the character of neighborhoods, or standing for the ethos of an entire city or nation. Whether they spread authoritarian French organizational models or the bland standardization of American fast food, restaurants have been accused of contributing to the homogenization of cultures. Yet restaurants have also played a central role in the reassertion of the local, as powerful cultural brokers and symbols for protests against a globalized food system. The Restaurants Book brings together anthropological insights into these thoroughly postmodern places.

General

Imprint:	Berg Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2007
First published:	December 2007
Editors:	David Beriss • David E. Sutton
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
Edition:	English
ISBN-13:	978-1-84520-754-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Customs Promotions
LSN:	1-84520-754-8
Barcode:	9781845207540

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