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Food and Culture
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Food is a system of communication, a type of language through which we express identities and relationships, including gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, festivity, and sacrality. This rich capacity of food to mean must be investigated from multiple angles: semiotics and linguistics, analyses of visual culture, and the anthropology of ritual. Cultural studies analyses of a single food reflect the current trend in scholarship and can offer insights into the relationships between consumption, class, market forces, and taste. Food studies can also offer insight into globalization by tracing how food products, trends, and taste circulate in the global economy. Food consumption patterns, while clearly reflective of corporate hegemony and the power of transnational agribusiness, also resonate with site-specific meanings that reinforce group identity.
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- Authors
- Gunkel, A. H.
- Corresponding author
- Gunkel, Ann Hetzel
- ORCID
- Gunkel, Ann Hetzel
- Venue
- A Companion to Popular Culture
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-03-05
- Pages
- 243-264
- OpenAlex
- W2487653108
- Cited by
- 17
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- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management › Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies
- Keywords
- food and culture, food and identity, food and ritual, food globalization, transnational agribusiness, corporate hegemony
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