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ANTHROPOLOGYApprox. 352 pp / 7 ½ x 9 ¼ /October 201348 photos, 16 tables, 2 diagrams,colour insertCloth 978-1-4426-0775-0$70.00 (£45.99) EPaper 978-1-4426-0465-0$34.95 (£22.99) XAnthropologyApprox. 240 pp / 6 x 9 / September 2013Cloth 978-1-4426-4735-0$65.00 (£45.99) EPaper 978-1-4426-1546-5$27.95 (£19.99) CeBook 978-1-4426-6798-3 $27.95Anthropology / History/ Southeast Asian StudiesEating CultureAn Anthropological Guide to FoodGillian CrowtherUTP Higher EducationEating Culture offers a highly engaging overview of how anthropologists understand food.It draws on a wide variety of food examples from different ethnic groups, times, and socialcontexts, while acknowledging the scholarship of anthropologists working in the field. Thebook follows a thematic approach that brings order and insight into our changing relationshipwith food.Organized around the sometimes elusive concept of cuisine and the public discourse (ongastronomy, nutrition, sustainability, and culinary skills) that surrounds it, and filled with richexamples of various food practices, Eating Culture acts as a practical guide to anthropologicalmethod and theory that allows readers to understand their own cuisines and cultures.Gillian Crowther is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at CapilanoUniversity.The Hakkas of SarawakSacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era MalaysiaKee Howe YongAnthropological HorizonsThis book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted ascommunists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into “new villages” surrounded bybarbed wire or detained at correction centres, where incarcerated people were understoodto be “sacrificial gifts” to the war on communism and to the rule of Malaysia’s judicialadministrativeregime.The Hakkas of Sarawak looks at how these incarcerated people struggled for survival anddealt with their defeat over the course of a generation. Using methodologies of narrativetheory and exchange theory, Kee Howe Yong provides a powerful account of the ongoinglegacies of Cold War oppression and its impact on the lives of people who were victimized bythese policies.Kee Howe Yong is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMasterUniversity.38UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS