ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the preceding chapter of this book. This book has been a modest attempt to redress the balance. Although it has been written by two geographers, they have tried not to wear our disciplinary badge too prominently on our sleeves. The constant cross-referencing of material within our book emphasizes the inter-relationships, or multiple positioning, of knowledge about food in overlapping discourses. Margaret Visser in her book The Rituals of Dinner speculates that food is at the basis of much human behaviour. Kinship systems may be interpreted as those groups which share food without question; language originated as a means of planning the acquisition and distribution of food; technology developed in order to improve the efficiency of hunting and food preparation; and morality and politics at first dealt with the fair division of food resources.
