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preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists from Sir James Frazer onwards from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives.
It is in the context of this previous anthropological work that Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa.
He criticises those approaches which overlook the comparative historical dimension of culinary, and other, cultural differences that emerge in class societies, both of which elements he particularly emphasises in this book.
The central question that Professor Goody addresses here is why a differentiated 'haute cuisine' has not emerged in Africa, as it has in other parts of the world.
His account of cooking in West Africa is followed by a survey of the culinary practices of the major Eurasian societies throughout history ranging from Ancient Egypt, Imperial Rome and medieval China to early modern Europe in which he relates the differences in food preparation and consumption emerging in these societies to differences in their socioeconomic structures, specifically in modes of production and communication.
He concludes with an examination of the worldwide rise of 'industrial food' and its impact on Third World societies, showing that the ability of the latter to resist cultural domination in food, as in other things, is related to the nature of their preexisting socioeconomic structures.
The arguments presented here will interest all social scientists and historians concerned with cultural history and social theory.
Sir John Jack Rankine Goody bornJulyis a British social anthropologist, He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in,and he is an associate of

the US National Academy of Sciences.
Among his main publications are Death, property and the ancestors, The myth of the Bagreand The domestication of the savage mind.
Jack Goody explained social structure and social change primarily in terms of three major factors, The first was the development of intensive forms of agriculture that allowed for the accumulation of surplus surplus explained many aspects of cultural practice from marriage to funerals as well as the great divide between African and Eurasia Sir John Jack Rankine Goody bornJulyis a British social anthropologist.
He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in,and he is an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Among his main publications are Death, property and the ancestors, The myth of the Bagreand The domestication of the savage mind.
Jack Goody explained social structure and social change primarily in terms of three major factors, The first was the development of intensive forms of agriculture that allowed for the accumulation of surplus surplus explained many aspects of cultural practice from marriage to funerals as well as the great divide between African and Eurasian societies.
Second, he explained social change in terms of urbanization and growth of bureaucratic institutions that modified or overrode traditional forms of social organization, such as family or tribe, identifying civilization as “the culture of cities”.
And third, he attached great weight to the technologies of communication as instruments of psychological and social change.
He associated the beginnings of writing with the task of managing surplus and, in an important paper with Ian Watt Goody and Watt,, he advanced the argument that the rise of science and philosophy in classical Greece depended importantly on their invention of an efficient writing system, the alphabet.
Because these factors could be applied to either to any contemporary social system or to systematic changes over time, his work is equally relevant to many disciplines.
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