Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists (Anthropology and Material Culture)

Type

Book

Authors

Richard Wilk

ISBN 10

1845203607

ISBN 13

9781845203603

Tags

Caribbean & West Indian, Engineering, Food Science, Customs & Traditions, Cultural, Sociology, Anthropology

Description

Winner of the Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Book Prize 2008.Belize, a tiny corner of the Caribbean wedged into Central America, has been a fast food nation since buccaneers and pirates first stole ashore. As early as the 1600s it was already caught in the great paradox of globalization: how can you stay local and relish your own home cooking, while tasting the delights of the global marketplace? Menus, recipes and bad colonial poetry combine with Wilk's sharp anthropological insight to give an important new perspective on the perils and problems of globalization. - from Amzon

Number of Copies