Everyone Eats : Understanding Food and Culture

Introduction: Everyone Eats 1(153) 1 Obligatory Omnivores 11(29) 2 Human Nutritional Needs 40(22) 3 More Needs Than One 62(8) 4 The Senses: Taste, Smell, and the Adapted Mind 70(12) 5 Basics: Environment and Economy 82(15) 6 Food as Pleasure 97(12) 7 Food Classification and Communication 109(15) 8 Me, Myself, and the Others: Food as Social Marker 124(16) 9 Food and Traditional Medicine 140(14) 10 Food and Religion 154(8) 11 Change 162(24) 12 Foods and Borders: Ethnicities, Cuisines, and Boundary Crossings 186(23) 13 Feeding the World 209(26) Appendix: Explaining It All: Nutritional Anthropology and Food Scholarship 235(10) Notes 245(12) References 257(28) Index 285(10) About the Author 295