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Risqué Business

Breastaurants in American Culture

by Dr. Ty Matejowsky ...

Risqué Business serves up the breastaurant industry, where food service, sex appeal, identity, and gender politics mix.Risqué Business explores the rise and ongoing cultural reckoning of “breastaurants”: sports bar–style restaurants like Hooters and Twin Peaks, which have long relied on the sexualized presentation of female servers to attract a mostly straight, male clientele. Ty Matejowsky, ... Read more

$28.79 USD

Risqué Business serves up the breastaurant industry, where food service, sex appeal, identity, and gender politics mix.Risqué Business explores the rise and ongoing cultural reckoning of “breastaurants”: sports bar–style restaurants like Hooters and Twin Peaks, which have long relied on the sexualized presentation of female servers to attract a mostly straight, male clientele. Ty Matejowsky,
... Read more
Smothered and Covered

Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary

by Dr. Ty Matejowsky ...

A critical meditation of the iconic 24-7 roadside chain and its place in the southern imaginaryWaffle House has long been touted as an icon of the American South. The restaurant’s consistent foregrounding as a resonant symbol of regional character proves relevant for understanding much about the people, events, and foodways shaping the sociopolitical contours of today’s Bible Belt. Whether ... Read more

$28.79 USD

A critical meditation of the iconic 24-7 roadside chain and its place in the southern imaginaryWaffle House has long been touted as an icon of the American South. The restaurant’s consistent foregrounding as a resonant symbol of regional character proves relevant for understanding much about the people, events, and foodways shaping the sociopolitical contours of today’s Bible Belt. Whether
... Read more
Fast Food Globalization in the Provincial Philippines

by Ty Matejowsky ...

Few contemporary societies remain beyond the global reach of today’s fast food industry. In both profound and subtle ways, this style of cuisine and the corporate brands that promote it have effectively transformed the appetites, health profiles, and consumer sensibilities of millions the world over. To better understand the variegated impact of McDonald’s and other national and international ... Read more

$93.99 USD

Few contemporary societies remain beyond the global reach of today’s fast food industry. In both profound and subtle ways, this style of cuisine and the corporate brands that promote it have effectively transformed the appetites, health profiles, and consumer sensibilities of millions the world over. To better understand the variegated impact of McDonald’s and other national and international
... Read more
Fast Food/Slow Food

The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

by Cathy Banwell, Theodore C. Bestor, Michael L. Burton, Jane Dixon, James A. Egan, Sarah Hinde, Valerie Imbruce, Dolores Koenig, Sarah Lyon, Ty Matejowsky, Heather McIntyre, Sidney Mintz, Karen L. Nero, Heather Paxson, Jeffery Pilcher, Lois Stanford, Penny Van Esterik, Gavin Whitelaw ...

Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental ... Read more

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Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental
... Read more
Economic Development

An Anthropological Approach

by Jeffrey Cohen, Nils Gilman, Patricia Lyons Johnson, Nitish Jha, Mike Woost, Gracia Clark, Elizabeth T. Kennedy, Michael Chibnik, Lee Cronk & Shannon Steadman, Cynthia Ann Werner, Ty Matejowsky, Rhoda H. Halperin, Monica Lindh de Montoya, Miguel Montoya ...

Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development. Chapters cover the key topics of market systems, agricultural knowledge, modernization, population growth, participatory development, conservation strategies, culturally sustainable ... Read more

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Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development. Chapters cover the key topics of market systems, agricultural knowledge, modernization, population growth, participatory development, conservation strategies, culturally sustainable
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Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America

by Donald C. Wood ...

Series Book 32 - Research in Economic Anthropology
Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained herein reflect the diverse range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists currently explore from various critical perspectives. Spanning deep history and present day economic processes, the contributions to this volume are subdivided into three ... Read more

$147.99 USD

Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained herein reflect the diverse range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists currently explore from various critical perspectives. Spanning deep history and present day economic processes, the contributions to this volume are subdivided into three
... Read more
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Smothered and Covered

Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary

by Ty Matejowsky ...

Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

Unabridged

9 hours 13 min

Waffle House has long been touted as an icon of the American South. The restaurant's consistent foregrounding as a resonant symbol of regional character proves relevant for understanding much about the people, events, and foodways. Whether approached as a comedic punchline on the Internet, television, and other popular media or elevated as a genuine touchstone of messy American modernity, Waffle ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Waffle House has long been touted as an icon of the American South. The restaurant's consistent foregrounding as a resonant symbol of regional character proves relevant for understanding much about the people, events, and foodways. Whether approached as a comedic punchline on the Internet, television, and other popular media or elevated as a genuine touchstone of messy American modernity, Waffle
... Read more
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Risque Business

Breastaurants in American Culture

by Ty Matejowsky ...

Narrated by Brandon J. Peterson ...

Unabridged

8 hours 57 min

Risqué Business serves up the breastaurant industry, where food service, sex appeal, identity, and gender politics mix.Risqué Business explores the rise and ongoing cultural reckoning of "breastaurants": sports bar–style restaurants like Hooters and Twin Peaks, which have long relied on the sexualized presentation of female servers to attract a mostly straight, male clientele. Ty Matejowsky, ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Risqué Business serves up the breastaurant industry, where food service, sex appeal, identity, and gender politics mix.Risqué Business explores the rise and ongoing cultural reckoning of "breastaurants": sports bar–style restaurants like Hooters and Twin Peaks, which have long relied on the sexualized presentation of female servers to attract a mostly straight, male clientele. Ty Matejowsky,
... Read more

Modern Romance

by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg ...

**The #1 New York Times Bestseller“An engaging look at the often head-scratching, frequently infuriating mating behaviors that shape our love lives.” —Refinery 29A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices**At some point, every one of us embarks on a ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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**The #1 New York Times Bestseller“An engaging look at the often head-scratching, frequently infuriating mating behaviors that shape our love lives.” —Refinery 29A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices**At some point, every one of us embarks on a
... Read more

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Governing the Commons

The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

by Elinor Ostrom ...

Series series Canto Classics
The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

$21.39 USD

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor
... Read more
Girl on Girl

How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

by Sophie Gilbert ...

**A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME, NPR, Elle, and The Boston Globe“Searing… rigorously researched but never stuffy… Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive examination of turn-of-the-millennium mainstream, cool-kid trends and ephemera, and how they were largely molded by those in power to sell a generation of girls ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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**A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME, NPR, Elle, and The Boston Globe“Searing… rigorously researched but never stuffy… Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive examination of turn-of-the-millennium mainstream, cool-kid trends and ephemera, and how they were largely molded by those in power to sell a generation of girls
... Read more

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Thrive

Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way

by Dan Buettner ...

What makes us happy? It's not wealth, youth, beauty, or intelligence, says Dan Buettner. In fact, most of us have the keys within our grasp. Circling the globe to study the world's happiest populations, Buettner has spotted several common principles that can unlock the doors to true contentment with our lives. Working with leading researchers, Buettner identifies the happiest region on each of ... Read more

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What makes us happy? It's not wealth, youth, beauty, or intelligence, says Dan Buettner. In fact, most of us have the keys within our grasp. Circling the globe to study the world's happiest populations, Buettner has spotted several common principles that can unlock the doors to true contentment with our lives. Working with leading researchers, Buettner identifies the happiest region on each of
... Read more

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