Isabelle Bianquis is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tours and in the Research team Citeres (UMR 7324). She studies the social and ritual life of the nomads of Mongolia and currently heads a research program on food mutations of the northern peoples in collaboration with the North-Eastern Federal University of Yakutsk (Russia).

Jean-Pierre Williot is Professor of Contemporary History at Sorbonne University, Paris. He is author or co-author of twenty books about various topics (history of gas industry, history of railways, food history). His main research interests history of consumption and innovation.

1 From Noun (the Food of the Nomads) to Adjective (Nomadic Eating)

Isabelle Bianquis

2 Mongolian Nomadic Herders are Sedentary Eaters

Sandrine Ruhlmann

3 McDonald's in the Desert: Bedouins, Fast-Food, and Modernity in Southern Israel

Nir Avieli

4 Nomadism in the Food Culture of the Yakuts and the Indigenous Peoples of Yakutia

Izabella Borisova and Antonina Vinokurova

5 Circulating Food Practices and Food Representations on Senegalese Inhabitants of Bordeaux and Dakar

Chantal Crenn

6 Space-Food: Food in Mobile Technological Environments of Late High-Modernity

Alwin Cubasch

7 Eating on Corsica's GR Footpaths and Trails: Choosing between Hi-tech and Tradition

Philippe Pesteil

8 Italian-Sounding: A World Carrier of a Traveling Cuisine

Giovanni Ceccarelli and Stefano Magagnoli

9 Imagining Culinary Nomadism: Food Exchanges Shaped by Global Mixed Race, Diasporic Belongings, and Cosmopolitan Sensibilites

Jean Duruz

10 The Traveling Priest: Food for the Spirit and Food for the Body

Luciano Maffi

11 Conclusion: From Anthropology to History

Jean-Pierre Williot

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