Binding: Paperback 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: 1845332 Studio: Routledge
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Product DescriptionThe wedding cake is one of the most extraordinary of the familiar objects of the Western world. In this unique contribution to the anthropology of food, Simon Charsley traces its fascinating history, from late medieval feasts and rites, through the Victorian wedding breakfast and into the present. He shows that the wedding cake provides a vivid illustration of the traditions and traditional values inherent in all food and demonstrates the part that material culture plays in the process of change. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in the fields of anthropology, cultural history and sociology.
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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?!
Revisited: Finally somebody did something smart and added " Look inside". Thank you!
Rating: - Theory of Cake
Not what I expected. Quite interesting in a school lecturely kind of way, but not an easy read.
Rating: - fascinating
Charsley'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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