Table of Contents

 

1. Eating Traditional Food: Politics, Identity and Practices

Brigitte Sébastia

 

2. The Rediscovery of Native ‘Super-foods’ in Mexico

Esther Katz and Elena Lazos

 

3. Lost in Tradition: An Attempt to Go Beyond Labels, Taking Maltese Food Practices as a Primary Example

Elise Billiard

 

4. The Protection of Traditional Local Foods through Geographical Indications in India

Delphine Marie-Vivien

 

5. Are Buuz and Banš Traditional Mongolian Foods? Strategy of Appropriation and Identity Adjustment in Contemporary Mongolia

Sandrine Ruhlmann

 

6. "Beef is our Secret of Life": Controversial Consumption of Beef in Andhra Pradesh, India

Brigitte Sébastia

 

7. Modernity, Traditionalism, and the Silence Protest: The Palestinian Food Narrative in Israeli Reality Television

Liora Gvion

 

8. The Never-ending Reinvention of ‘Traditional Food’: Food Practices and Identity (Re)Construction among Bolivian Returnees from Argentina

Charles-Édouard de Suremain

 

9. What Is Healthy Diet? Some Ideas about the Construction of Healthy Food in Germany since the 19^th Century

Detlef Briesen

 

10. Are Traditional Foods and Eating Patterns Really Good for Health? A Socio-Anthropological Inquiry into French People with Hypercholesterolaemia

Tristan Fournier

 

11. Eating Ayurvedic Foods: Elaboration of a Repertoire of ‘Traditional Foods’ in France

Nicolas Commune