The sociology of food : eating and the place of food in society / Jean-Pierre Poulain ; traducción de Augusta Dörr.

Traducido de: Sociologies de l'alimentation.

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List of figures and tables -- Preface -- By the same author -- Acknowledments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction part one : permanent and changing aspects in modern eating practices -- Chapter 1 : the globalization of the food supply : delocalization and relocalization -- Chapter 2 : between the domestic and the economic spheres : the ebb and flow of culinary activity -- Chapter 3 : the evolution of eating practices -- Chapter 4 : from food risks and food safety to anxiety management -- Chapter 5 : obesity and the medicalization of everyday food consumption -- Chapter 5 : obesity and the medicalization of everyday food consumption -- Part 2 : from sociological interest in food to sociologies of food -- Chapter 6 : the major socio-anthropological movements and their encounters with the "food social fact" -- Chapter 7 : epistemiological obstacles -- Chapter 8 : from sociological interest in food to sociologies of food -- Chapter 9 : the sociologies of food and attempts to make connections -- Chapter 10 : the sociology of french gastronomy -- Chapter 11 : the "food Social Space" : a tool for the study of food patterns -- As a conclusion : the call for constructivist positivism -- New chapter : food studies versus the socio-anthropology of the "food socialfact" -- Notes -- References -- Index.