Food in the Social Order

• Author(s): Mary Douglas,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 304
• ISBN_10: 1317833686
  ISBN_13: 9781317833680
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Archaeology , Social Science / Reference , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... First published in 1984, This work is a cross-cultural study of the moral and social meaning of food. It is a collection of articles by Douglas and her colleagues covering the food system of the Oglala Sioux, the food habits of families in rural North Carolina, meal formats in an Italian-American community near Philadelphia. It also includes a grid/group analysis of food consumption.