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Critical Approaches to Superfoods

McDonell, Emma Wilk Richard
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781350123878
Publisert
2020-12-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
503 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
232

Redaktør
McDonell, Emma
Wilk Richard

Biographical note

Emma McDonell is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. Richard Wilk is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, USA. His publications include Home Cooking in the Global Village (2006), and Rice and Beans (2012).

Critical Approaches to Superfoods

McDonell, Emma Wilk Richard
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk
McDonell, Emma Wilk Richard
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk
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Are superfoods just a marketing device, another label meant to attract the eye? Or do superfoods tell us a deeper story about how food and health relate in a global marketplace full of anonymous commodities? In the past decade, superfoods have taken US and European grocery stores by storm. Novel commodities like quinoa and moringa, along with familiar products such as almonds and raw milk, are now called superfoods, promising to promote health and increase our energy. While consumers may find the magic of superfoods attractive, the international development sector now envisions superfoods acting as cures to political and economic problems like poverty and malnutrition. Critical Approaches to Superfoods examines the politics and culture of superfoods. It demonstrates how studying superfoods can reveal shifting concepts of nutritional authority, the complexities of intellectual property and bioprospecting, the role marketing agencies play in the agro-industrial complex, and more. The multidisciplinary contributors draw their examples from settings as diverse as South India, Peru, and California to engage with foodstuffs that include quinoa, almonds, fish meal, Rooibos Tea, kale and açaí.
Les mer
List of Figures List of contributors Acknowledgements 1.Introduction. Tracking Superfoods Emma McDonell and Richard Wilk Part I. Making foods super 2.From Seasonal Specialty to Superfood: Almonds, Overproduction, and the Semiotics of The Spatial Fix Emily Reisman 3.“The New Pomegranate”: Rooibos Magic, Traditional Knowledge, and the Politics and Possibilities of Superfoods Sarah Ives 4.Extractionist logics: the missing link between functional foods and superfoods Christy Spackman Part III. Working miracles 5.“A Really Good Story Behind It”: Moringa Bars and Venture Capital Funding Julie Guthman 6.The Miracle Crop as a Boundary Object: Quinoa’s Rise as a “Neglected and Under-Utilized Species” Emma McDonell 7.What Makes Food Super? The Post-Eugenic Promises of Fish Flour and Other Super Powders Hannah LeBlanc Part III. Superfood trajectories 8.From Superfood to Staple? Tracing the Complex Commoditization of Kale Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio and Anacorita O. Abasolo 9.The Global Acai´: A Chronicle of Possibilities and Predicaments of an Amazonian Superfood Eduardo S. Brondizio 10.Amaranth’s “Rediscovery” In Mexico: A Path Towards Decolonization of Food? Florence Bétrisey and Valérie Boisvert Index
Les mer
This super book takes a holistic and critical approach to superfoods—those purported to have extraordinary nutritional or curative powers. An intriguing read for both scholars and foodies.
The first book to critically examine superfoods using anthropological perspectives

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Are superfoods just a marketing device, another label meant to attract the eye? Or do superfoods tell us a deeper story about how food and health relate in a global marketplace full of anonymous commodities? In the past decade, superfoods have taken US and European grocery stores by storm. Novel commodities like quinoa and moringa, along with familiar products such as almonds and raw milk, are now called superfoods, promising to promote health and increase our energy. While consumers may find the magic of superfoods attractive, the international development sector now envisions superfoods acting as cures to political and economic problems like poverty and malnutrition. Critical Approaches to Superfoods examines the politics and culture of superfoods. It demonstrates how studying superfoods can reveal shifting concepts of nutritional authority, the complexities of intellectual property and bioprospecting, the role marketing agencies play in the agro-industrial complex, and more. The multidisciplinary contributors draw their examples from settings as diverse as South India, Peru, and California to engage with foodstuffs that include quinoa, almonds, fish meal, Rooibos Tea, kale and açaí.
Les mer
List of Figures List of contributors Acknowledgements 1.Introduction. Tracking Superfoods Emma McDonell and Richard Wilk Part I. Making foods super 2.From Seasonal Specialty to Superfood: Almonds, Overproduction, and the Semiotics of The Spatial Fix Emily Reisman 3.“The New Pomegranate”: Rooibos Magic, Traditional Knowledge, and the Politics and Possibilities of Superfoods Sarah Ives 4.Extractionist logics: the missing link between functional foods and superfoods Christy Spackman Part III. Working miracles 5.“A Really Good Story Behind It”: Moringa Bars and Venture Capital Funding Julie Guthman 6.The Miracle Crop as a Boundary Object: Quinoa’s Rise as a “Neglected and Under-Utilized Species” Emma McDonell 7.What Makes Food Super? The Post-Eugenic Promises of Fish Flour and Other Super Powders Hannah LeBlanc Part III. Superfood trajectories 8.From Superfood to Staple? Tracing the Complex Commoditization of Kale Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio and Anacorita O. Abasolo 9.The Global Acai´: A Chronicle of Possibilities and Predicaments of an Amazonian Superfood Eduardo S. Brondizio 10.Amaranth’s “Rediscovery” In Mexico: A Path Towards Decolonization of Food? Florence Bétrisey and Valérie Boisvert Index
Les mer
This super book takes a holistic and critical approach to superfoods—those purported to have extraordinary nutritional or curative powers. An intriguing read for both scholars and foodies.
The first book to critically examine superfoods using anthropological perspectives

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350123878
Publisert
2020-12-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
503 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
232

Redaktør
McDonell, Emma
Wilk Richard

Biographical note

Emma McDonell is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. Richard Wilk is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, USA. His publications include Home Cooking in the Global Village (2006), and Rice and Beans (2012).

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