Eating in Theory

by Annemarie Mol

Book Overview

As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitchen table, Mol reassesses the work of authors such as Hannah Arendt,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478011416
• ISBN13: 9781478011415
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"