By addressing the issue of food and eating today, Food, Health and Identity
considers the way in which food habits are changing, and shows how social and
personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence choice.

In reviewing some of the existing literature on the subject, this book discusses
how social scientists can help us understand why people eat what they do. Some of
the chapters cover the family meal, wedding cakes, the rise of vegetarianism, and
creation of individual identity through lifestyle. Contributors include Hanna Bradby,
Simon Charsley, Allison James, Anne Keane, Lydia Martens and Alan Warde.
About the Author
Pat Caplan is Professor of Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University
of London. She is editor of Gendered Fields: Women, Men and Ethnography (Routledge 1993).

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