Food and the Status Quest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Book Overview

The use of food to negotiate status is found in all human societies. Here, for the first time, a single book brings together contributions from different disciplines to investigate, from ethological and anthropological perspectives, behavior that appears to have biological roots such as the tendency to seek status through the medium of food. It explores the limits that our biological heritage places on cultural expressions of such behavior, as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571811230
• ISBN13: 9781571811233
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"