Estudios del Hombre, 24
Serie Antropología de la Alimentación
Food, Imaginaries and Cultural Frontiers. Essays in Honour of Helen Macbeth
F. Xavier Medina, Ricardo Ávila e Igor de Garine
(coordinadores)
CUCSH-UdeG
450 pp. /UdeG
Año 2009
Rústica, 16 x 23.5 cm
ISBN: 978-607-450-142-1
Could ICAF be waht it has become
without Helen Macbeth? She has been a main actor in giving us a working structure, organizing
us, keeping in touch, informing everyone of events and of what happened in the meetings she
attended. Her academic background contributed to the specific features of the scientific
disciplines she endeavoured to establish. In 1964, the International Biological Programme on
the biological structure of human populations put the focus on food and nutrition, on the
nutritional adaptation of humanity, which opened the way for the human sciences. This is why
Icaf can be characterized by its approach to food and nutrition by scholars belonging to both
biological and human sciences. It prevented our group from drifting towards the study of folk
beliefs on food, as did the previous International Committee for the Anthropology of Food and
Food Habits.
It is difficult to imagine to
imagine Helen not getting ready to go somewhere: from Australia to Slovenia, from Catalonia to
America, travelling light, sleeping in trains, airports, having fun and talking to people. Her
experiences would make a nice yarn: from freezing in the Danube delta to dancing the waltz in
Copenhagen at the opening of the Ixth Congress of the European Anthropological Association.
How many books have been published
thanks to her? The whole Berghahn “Anthropology if Food” series we owe to her
energy, and that is without counting Alimenta Populorum: we all have one of the few issues of
that nice little journal on our bookshelves. With great patience, she has edited and often
helped re-write chapters or articles when some authors could not write in English. Herrole in
our scientific production has been major.
ÍNDICE
Preface/Foreword
Annie Hubert and Igor de Garine/
F. Xavier Medina and Ricardo Ávila /11
ARTÍCULOS
Nutrition, Health and Culture
Biosociocultural Aspects of
Nutrition
Wulf Schiefenhoevel /17
Hunger and Gluttony among the Masa
and Muzey of Northern Cameroon
Igor de Garine /37
Food Stories of Difficult
Children, Manufacturing of Disgusts and Experience of the Crohn Disease Virginie Masdoua /45
Attitudes and Representations of
Dietician: a Comprehensive Approach of the Contemporary Diet Logic Matthieu Duboys de Labarre /63
Relaciones entre biología,
cultura e historia en el tratamiento de los trastornos alimentarios Mabel Gracia Arnaiz /73
Encrucijadas alimentarias:
desencuentros sociales respecto a la biotecnología agroalimentaria Juanjo Cáceres Nevot /89
Food and Cultural Imaginaries
Women who cook with
Angels in Calabria
Alfonsina Bellio /101
Food Discourses in Ninotchka and One,
Two, Three: Hollywood and the Colonization of the East
Luis Cantarero & Monica Stacconi /127
La sopa y las sopas de plantas silvestres
alimentarias en El Alentejo, Portugal
Maria-Manuel Valagão /143
The Milk Ties
Jeremy MacClancy /163
El lugar por donde pasa la vida…
Los mercados y las demandas urbanas contemporáneas: Barcelona y Buenos Aires
F. Xavier Medina y Marcelo Álvarez /183
Market Gardening in Florence:
Transgressing Urban and Rural Borders in the Struggle for Local Food
Rachel E. Black /203
Chili Pepper, from Mexico to Europe:
Food, Imaginary and Cultural Identity
Esther Katz /213
La procesión de las espigas
Ricardo Ávila, Martín Tena y Martha Ocegueda /233
Countryside and the City, Food and
the Imaginary: Perceptions of the Rural at the Table Renata Menaschez /255
Conjunciones y disyunciones del gusto en el sur de Chile Sonia Montecino/269
Prácticas alimentarias en un
barrio de clase media en Cali, Colombia David Quintero
/281
Food and Cultural Frontiers
Fronteras alimentarias: los OGM entre el
imaginario social y la naturaleza cultural
Amado Millán /301
La frontera como horizonte culinario:
Andalucía y Marruecos
Isabel González Turmo /319
La paella en las culturas culinarias
españolas y francesas (siglos XIX-XXI)
Frédéric Duhart y F. Xavier Medina /333
La yuca y el plátano macho.
Migración y totemismo alimentario
Cecilia Montero /345
Representaciones sobre la alteridad.
Inmigración, contacto inter-
tercultural y alimentación
Paula Durán /367
Inmigración marroquí en
España: connotaciones sociales y culturales
Leila Abu-Shams /379
High-Alpine Peasants: Way of Life
and Alimentation during the 19th Century
Aurélie Rousselot-Pailley
/393
Del Pirineo a la Cordillera Ibérica: sistemas alimentarios en las
montañas de Aragón (siglos XI-XV) María Luz Rodrigo Estevan/405
Culinaria y organización social en
torno a la frontera agrícola de México. La comida tarasca en la
Relación de Michoacán Rodolfo Fernández y
Daria Deraga /423
Epilogue
Geoffrey Harrison /437
Helen Macbeth’s Selected
Bibliography
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