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Recipes and Reciprocity

Building Relationships in Research

edited by Hannah Tait Neufeld & Elizabeth Finnis

Publisher
University of Manitoba Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2022
Category
Cultural, Research, Essays
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780887552953
    Publish Date
    Aug 2022
    List Price
    $25.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887552915
    Publish Date
    Aug 2022
    List Price
    $27.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780887552977
    Publish Date
    Aug 2022
    List Price
    $70.00 USD

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Recipes and Reciprocity considers the ways that food and research intersect for both researchers, participants, and communities demonstrating how everyday acts around food preparation, consumption, and sharing can enable unexpected approaches to reciprocal research and fuel relationships across cultures, generations, spaces, and places.

Drawing from research contexts within Canada, Cuba, India, Malawi, Nepal, Paraguay, and Japan, contributors use the sharing of food knowledge and food processes (such as drying, steaming, mixing, grinding, and churning) to examine topics like identity, community-based research ethics, food sovereignty, and nutrition. Each chapter highlights practical and experiential elements of fieldwork, incorporating storytelling, recipes, and methodological practices to offer insight into how food facilitates relationship-building and knowledge-sharing across geographical and cultural boarders. Contributors to this volume bring a range of disciplinary backgrounds—including anthropology, public health, social work, history, and rural studies—to the exploration of global and Indigenous foodways, perceptions around ethical eating and authenticity, language and food preparation, perspectives on healthy eating, and what it means to develop research relationships through food.

Challenging colonial, heteropatriarchal, and methodological divisions between academic and less formal ways of knowing, Recipes and Reciprocity draws critical attention to the ways food can bridge disciplinary and lived experiences, propelling meaningful research and reciprocal relationships.

About the authors

Hannah Tait Neufeld is a nutritionist and Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo in the School of Public Health and Health Systems.

 

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Elizabeth Finnis is an anthropologist and Associate Professor at the University of Guelph.

 

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