Naomichi ishige editor (2 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Number 7 in the series, Senri Ethnological Studies. Small quarto in paper wraps. B&W photographs, illustrations, maps & charts. Text in English. Condition: ex-library copy with library stampings; minor wear to covers; several small stains to fore-edge of book block; else very good. Pages: ix, 531.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First edition. This handsome first edition, first impression of an illustrated book of recipes taken from across the globe and contextualised by several important anthropologists, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This handsome first edition, first impression of the work.With the original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with numerous charming monochrome vignettes by Joan Koster.This copy with a Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd compliments slip from Clare Alexander inserted loosely at the front of the work.This is a fascinating study which seeks to bring together recipes for popular dishes from around the world and reflect on their specific cultural significance, as well as on what they reveal about the wider symbolic significance of food and eating. Enriched by the insights of major anthroplogists such as Claude Lévi Strauss, Julian Pitt-Rivers, and Naomichi Ishige, it explores a range of topics, from 'Salt and Sugar in Portugal' and 'Social Aspects of Iteso Cookery', to 'Kammu Dishes' and 'Oyakodonburi from Japan'. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent with just a touch of bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Wrapper is likewise attractive with just some sunning to the spine and fractional offsetting to the flyleaves. Internally, firmly bound with lovely, bright, clean pages barring the recto of the contents page, which has a few spots. Near Fine. Joan Koster (illustratore). book.…