Bigger Fish to Fry

A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples

David E. Sutton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

142 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-113-5 (ISBN)

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What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis. Richly illustrated with examples from the author’s anthropology fieldwork in Greece, Bigger Fish to Fry proposes a new approach to the meaning of cooking and how the study of cooking can reshape our understanding of social processes more generally.

David E. Sutton has been teaching at the department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University Since 1999. He has been a Full Professor since 2011. Key Publications include Secrets from the Greek Kitchen (California Series in Food and Culture, 2014), and Remembrance of Repasts (Berg, Materializing Culture Series, 2001).

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: In the Dangerous Kitchen

Chapter 1. How People Cook, While Thinking, for Example

Chapter 2. “That’s Not Cooking!” Human Creativity or Mechanical Reproduction?

Chapter 3. “To Steal a Bad Hour from Death.” Subjective Risk and Contingent Temporalities in the Greek Kitchen

Conclusion: Take the Risk

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-113-5 / 1805391135
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-113-5 / 9781805391135
Zustand	Neuware