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The Taste for Knowledge
The Taste for Knowledge: Medical Anthropology Facing Medical Realities demonstrates how medical anthropology is becoming increasingly important in the fields of medical research and public health. The authors examine some of the major issues in medical anthropology today. In this volume, a group of international researchers reflect, for example, on: the way anthropology faces and deals with interdisciplinarity in its encounter with medicine and doctors; the new medical realities and patient strategies that exist in changing medical systems; and the interactions between practice, power and science. The book will appeal to clinicians/practitioners, anthropologists in general, and all those engaged in the interface between medicine and anthropology, but will also be a valuable tool for students of medicine and anthropology who have a special interest in the social realities and interdisciplinarity of health and illness.
Ethics of Charitable Food
This book provides an in-depth analysis of different dimensions of contemporary food charity. It does so against the background of an increasing number of food banks and other forms of food philanthropy. The book examines the incongruity of considering food donation as an expression of 'pure altruism'. Taking into account the dignity and rights of people, it addresses how hunger is seen and explained in rich countries and how philanthropy and democracy coexist. It looks at the relationship that exists between religious traditions and the current food donation narrative. It discusses the risks of stigmatizing food recipients, and clarifies ways to better deal with food poverty and food waste....
A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies
An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies. From the scars left by Franco's dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and non-human costs. Guiding the reader through the rapidly emerging field of Spanish environmental cultural studies, wit...
Liquid Bread
“This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society.... Highly Recommended.”—Choice A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of The Year 2011 Winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook UK Award Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisciplinary, cross-cultural collection about beer. It explores the brewing processes used in antiquity and in traditional societies; the social and symbolic roles of beer-drinking; the beliefs and activities associated with it; the health-promoting...
The Ways of Federalism in Western Countries and the Horizons of Territorial Autonomy in Spain
Territorial autonomy in Spain has reached a crossroads. After over thirty years of development, the consensus regarding its appropriateness has started to crumble. The transformation project embodied by the reform of Statute of Catalonia (2006) has failed to achieve its most significant demands. Although the concept of Spain as a Federation is disputed -more within the country than beyond-, the evolution of the Spanish system needs to follow a markedly federalist path. In this perspective, reference models assume critical importance. This edition gathers the works of a broad group of European, American and Spanish experts who analyse the present-day challenges of their respective systems. Th...
Antropología y enfermería
Este volumen está organizado en bloques temáticos. El primero versa sobre salud reproductiva e infantil y contiene un texto inédito de Dina Garcés, homenajeada en este libro, que revisaba cuando le sorprendió la muerte. Le siguen un segundo bloque sobre alimentación, un tercero sobre salud mental y drogas y un cuarto sobre problemas relativos al envejecimiento. Una quinta parte incluye textos que relacionan la ética, las ciencias sociales y de la salud y la religión. Cierra el volumen un apartado de miscelánea.
El papel del cacao en la historia del Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada y en los inicios republicanos, 1717-1830
Cecilia Restrepo Fuse. Bogotá, arqueóloga de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México, con postgrado en Historia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Miembro correspondiente de la Academia Colombiana de Historia e investigadora de www.historiacocina.com. Algunas de sus publicaciones son: Nacho un niño del barrio de la Catedral. Historia de barrio y vida cotidiana; De la sala al comedor. Anécdotas y recetas bogotanas; y La alimentación en la vida cotidiana del Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. 1653- 1900. Rosa Isabel Zarama Rincón. Pasto, Doctora en Historia. Socia correspondiente de la Academia Nariñense de Historia. Especialista en el actual departamento de Nariño, desde la Colonia hasta principios del siglo XX. Temas de interés: vida cotidiana, historia de los objetos, historia de los oficios (cargueros, tejedores y escribanos), religiosas Conceptas, mujeres intelectuales y cocina tradicional. Autora de tres libros de Historia, uno en coautoría con Benhur Cerón y de cuarenta y dos escritos entre capítulos de libros y artículos publicados en Colom bia, España, México, Venezuela y Ecuador
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face. Its cross-disciplinary framework of chapters with local, regional and continental perspectives provides a global outlook on sustainability issues. These case studies will appeal to those working in public sector agencies, NGOs, consultancies and other bodies focused on food security, human nutrition and environmental sustainability.
Invento, luego resisto
El vértice del presente libro es el arte de inventar en la vida cotidiana y en la producción cultural en Cuba durante y después del Período Especial en Tiempos de Paz (1990-2015). Aunque el término "Período Especial" fuera una coartada retórica del gobierno para enmascarar la crisis, su significado en la experiencia, memoria y conciencia, tanto individual como colectiva, adquiere proporciones épicas de una demarcación epocal. La extraordinaria creatividad de los cubanos para "resolver" las carencias cotidianas con humor e ingenio ocupa una gran parte de las páginas que siguen. Por otro lado, la autora se detiene en las novedosas y originales invensiones de carácter literario y art...
La antropología de la alimentación en España
La alimentación es un universo de conocimientos, de leyes y de reglas, al mismo tiempo natural y sociocultural, un lugar de encuentro y de síntesis de lo biológico, lo económico, lo social y lo cultural. A pesar de que la alimentación es una necesidad primaria de la especie humana, la inclusión de este tema en la investigación sistemática en el campo de la antropología ha sido, sin embargo, relativamente tardía. Las precursoras fueron en su día Margaret Mead y Audrey Richards. Esta última fue la primera en considerar una posible colaboración entre las ciencias humanas y biológicas. Este libro conmemora los 25 años de la sección española de la International Commission on the ...
