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Books : Wedding Cakes and Cultural History |
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Books : Wedding Cakes and Cultural History |
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Dewey Decimal Number: 392.5 EAN: 9780415026499 ISBN: 0415026490 Label: Routledge Manufacturer: Routledge Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: June 05, 1992 Publisher: Routledge Sales Rank: 1821403 Studio: Routledge Editorial Review: The wedding cake is a product of a complex, contingent, and continuing history, which illustrates and challenges theories of 'structuralism' and 'neo-structuralism.' In Wedding Cakes and Cultural History, this fascinating history becomes the basis for a discussion of how use and meaning are involved in the creation of cultural forms. The wedding cake has evolved on a time scale which can readily be encompassed in research and in ways that have been minutely charted in a wealth of successive recipes recorded from the late medieval period and set in Europe, America, and world contexts. In this field at least, the familiar furniture of the contemporary world can be observed taking shape. There can therefore be constructed a base against which to test out old ideas and from which a firmer account of processes of cultural change can be developed. This fundamental contribution to the history of cakes has much to offer to readers interested in anthropology, material culture, popular ritual and its interpretation, folklore, and food and confectionary. Wedding Cakes and Cultural History is a challenging, yet very readable book which is of interest both for its own distinctive inquiry into cultural change and as an unusual yet accessible introduction to the relativity of culture.
Average Rating:
 Rating:  - ??How do you expect us to spend 120$ on a cake book that does not show a single picture of the cakes that are in it?! Rating: - Theory of CakeNot what I expected. Quite interesting in a school lecturely kind of way, but not an easy read. Rating:  - fascinatingCharsley's treatment of wedding cakes is an interesting historical and social study. Feminists in particular will be intrigued and outraged by the symbolism that has gone into making the tradition of the wedding cake (particularly the cutting of the cake) what it is today. This book made me think about weddings in a whole new way.
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