1. The Impurities of Purity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface viii
5. Introduction. Pure Food: Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives 1
6. 1. The Impurities of Purity 47
7. 2. ‘Pure’ Food and Food Taboos in Cross-Cultural and Human Ethological Perspective 73
8. 3. Food and Order: Purity, Danger and the Bayesian Brain 85
9. 4. From Concepts of Pure Food to a Healthy Diet in Greco-Roman Antiquity 95
10. Eating Pure: Ethnography and Food in ‘Fitness Cultures’ 109
11. 6. ‘Pure Food’ in Catering for Public Institutions: Policies and Aspirations in the City of Liverpool, England 125
12. 7. Blood Used in Food: When, Where and Why Not? 135
13. 8. Pure Food, Food Tourism and the Mythologising of Western Ireland 149
14. 9. Bioethics and Pure Food: The Consumers’ Dilemma in West Mexico 165
15. 10. The Label ‘Organic’ as a Representation of Food Purity: A Study of an Organic Beef Farm in Oxfordshire, England 179
16. Epilogue. From Pure Food to Purification: A Review of Perspectives 199
17. Index 211