Name: Food and Cultural (In)Compatibilities
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Food and Cultural (In)Compatibilities

12 Points of View

Edited By: Gabriela-Mariana Luca

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Specialists in fields from anthropology to linguistics explore how we understand the cultural heritage of food and how it defines the stratification of society. Providing insights into physical and cultural food, this book offers a higher level of understanding of our world.

From the anthropological point of view, eating means to ingest qualities, but also defects. Digestion is a double process, encompassing both assimilation and distribution through…

From the anthropological point of view, eating means to ingest qualities, but also defects. Digestion is a double process, encompassing both assimilation and distribution through transformation. This book is based on the contributions of specialists in various fields of activity, including anthropology, medicine, cultural studies, archaeology, theatre, linguistics, who explore how we understand the cultural heritage of food, and how this defines the stratification of society. Providing insights into the compatibility and incompatibility of physical and cultural food, this book offers a higher level of understanding of the world in which we live.

Gabriela-Mariana Luca is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Romanian Language at Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania, where she also serves as Director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies. She is the author of several volumes and studies of cultural anthropology, including The Human Body: A Sum of Anthropological Introductions (2020), Vraciul, preotul și medicul. Tipuri de inițiere (2004), “The Narrative, a Different Style for the Medical Student and His Bank of Dreams”, and “The Female Doctor and Re-creation: Gender and Initiation into the Medical Profession of the 21st Century”.

Elena Amăricăi, Teodora Anghel, Corina Beljung, Diana-Andreea Boc-Sînmărghiţan, Frédéric Duhart, Hitesh Gautam, Adrian Linte, Gabriela-Mariana Luca, Cosmina Lungoci, Medina F. Xavier, Mehmet Kavanoz, Arda Özel, Daniela Șilindean, Slobodan Dan Paich, Jérôme Thomas