Food and Power in the Western World
<p>Audrey Richards (1932) is renowned as one of the foremost ground-breaking social anthropologists to merge the rigid boundaries between the natural and social sciences. An avid student of Malinowski’s, Richards was eager to learn his teachings on how social behaviour cannot be explained by scientific theories, only by human sentiments or instincts. In her early text she outlined the different stances from which nutrition needs to be approached: sociological, nutritional, physiological, economic, psychoanalytical; revealing that nutrition was not dictated by biology alone, but satisfied an entire system of needs through institutional and social problems. This is highlighted by the following quote:</p>
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