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Food cults : how fads, dogma, and doctrine influence diet / edited by Kima Cargill.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
Description
vi, 271 pages ; 24 cm.
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GT2855 .F658 2017
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Food habits
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Social aspects
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Food preferences
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Nutrition
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Diet
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Food
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Author
Cargill, Kima
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Series
Studies in food and gastronomy
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Rowman & Littlefield studies in food and gastronomy
Summary note
Because beliefs and practices surrounding food often inspire religious and political fervor, in addition to uniting people into insular groups, it is inevitable that "food cults" will emerge. Studying the extreme beliefs and practices of such food cults allows us to see the ways in which food serves as a nexus for religious beliefs, sexuality, death anxiety, preoccupation with the body, asceticism, and hedonism, to name a few. In contrast to religious and political cults, food cults have the added dimension of mediating cultural trends in nutrition and diet through their membership. Should we then consider raw foodists, many of whom believe that cooked food is poison, part of a food cult? What about paleo diet adherents or those who follow a restricted-calorie diet for longevity? Food Cults explores these questions by looking at domestic and international food communities characterized by extreme nutritional beliefs or viewed as "fringe" movements by mainstream culture. While there are a variety of accounts of such food communities across disciplines, this collection pulls together these works and explains why we gravitate toward such groups, as well as the social and psychological functions they serve. The contributors here describe how contemporary and historic food communities come together and foment fanaticism, judgment, charisma, dogma, passion, longevity, condemnation, and exaltation. -- from back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The psychology of food cults / Kima Cargill
The allure of food cults : balancing pseudoscience and healthy skepticism / Leighann R. Chaffee and Corey L. Cook
Food practices in early Christianity / Paul A. Brazinski
Longevity diets in historical perspective / Ken Albala
Juicing : language, ritual, and placebo sociality in a community of extreme eaters / Samuel Veissière and Liona Gibbs-Bravo
Contemporary superfood cults : nutritionism, neoliberalism and gender / Tina Sikka
Gluttons galore : a rising faction in food discourses and dining experiences / Carlnita P. Greene
Caving in : the appeal of the paleo diet in the wake of 9/11 / Lenore Bell
"Of bananas and cavemen" : unlikely similarities between two online food communities / Amanda Maxfield and Andrea Rissing
Eschew your food : foodies, healthism and the elective restrictive diet / Michele Scott
Breaking bread : the clashing cults of sourdough and gluten-free / L. Sasha Gora
The gluten-free cult : a world without wheat / Jennifer Martin
Erasure of indigenous food memories and (re-)imaginations / Preety Gadhoke and Barrett P. Brenton
"Herb is for the healing of the nation!" : marijuana as a consumable vegetable among ghetto Muslim youth of Maamobi in Accra, Ghana / De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway and Charles Prempeh
What makes a good mother? : mother's conceptions of good food / Liora Gvion and Irit Sharir.
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ISBN
9781442251311 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
144225131X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016027109
OCLC
953708350
Other standard number
40026704549
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