Richard Wilk

Livia Barbosa

An exploration of the dish around the world, from the culinary variances of this inherently local dish from cultures across Brazil to West Africa, to a broader account of the universal significance and symbolism of Rice and Beans as a cultural cornerstone amidst forces of globalization and nation-building.

A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places

Rice and Beans

Consumir, seja para fins de satisfação de "necessidades básicas" e/ou "supérfluas", é uma atividade presente em toda e qualquer sociedade humana. Nesse livro Livia Barbosa faz uma avaliação crítica acerca dos estudos sobre a sociedade de consumo e o consumo no Brasil, a partir de suas origens históricas e de sua caracterização sociológica segundo a visão de diferentes autores.

Sociedade de consumo

Rice and Beans is a book about the paradox of local and global. On the one hand, this is a globe-spanning dish, a simple source of complete nutrition for billions of people in hundreds of countries. On the other hand, in every place people insist that rice and beans is a local invention, deeply rooted in a particular history and culture. How can something so universal also be so particular? The authors of this book explore the specific history of the versions of rice and beans beloved and indigenous in cultures from Brazil to West Africa. But they also plumb the shared African, Native American and European trans-Atlantic encounters and exchanges, and the contemporary forces of globalization and nation-building, which combine to make rice and beans a powerful substance and symbol of the relationship between food and culture.

Livia Barbosa

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