Packaged food, packaged life : corporate food in Metro Manila slums
/ Heriberto Ruiz Tafoya
- xxvi, 418 pages : illustrations, charts, maps, portraits
- Kyoto CSEAS series on Philippine studies .
Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-387) and index.
Part I. Consumption of corporate packaged food Sociohistorical review of corporate package food consumption Contemporary consumption of corporate packaged food in slum households Corporate package food in people's eating patterns Part II. Exchange of corporate packaged food Circulation of corporate packaged food Corporate packaged food as gifts Corporate packaged food as a relief during the COVID-19 pandemic Part III. Packaged life Alienation from nature Packaging minds and bodies Part IV. Unpacking life Unpacking life from the bottom