Counting What We Eat: Metrics and Optimization in the Food World
“The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world into an arithmetic problem, to fix every part of the world by mathematical formulas”. George Simmel [1903] 2003: 30In my research on discourses...
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Anthropology of food
2025
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | “The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world into an arithmetic problem, to fix every part of the world by mathematical formulas”. George Simmel [1903] 2003: 30In my research on discourses and practices of food in the wake of the Greek economic crisis of the 2010s, one interest was how food was used as a foil to numbers and economics in the understanding of ordinary Greeks. Food was ... |
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