Eating Culture: The Poetics and Politics of FoodTobias Döring, Markus Heide, Susanne Muehleisen Food has always operated in circulation between the local and the global, migration and resettlement and, with its power in defining and performing social meanings, served to construct notions of home and cultural otherness. But while previous studies emphasized these oppositions, our globalized and postcolonial setting today poses a new question: what happens to eating culture when the pure products go crazy? This transdisciplinary volume therefore draws on research in social anthropology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, literature, film and cultural studies to investigate practices, representations and functions of food in American, European and Asian societies and their cross-cultural engagements. It argues that foodways precisely come to mark the material basis for both the identification and the translatability of cultures. |
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... Indian food , ' which subtends the following remarks , is itself problem- atical , a representation of something that does not in this form exist . ' Indian food ' cannot be made to refer to specific foods or dishes nor to the seem ...
... Indian food , ' which subtends the following remarks , is itself problem- atical , a representation of something that does not in this form exist . ' Indian food ' cannot be made to refer to specific foods or dishes nor to the seem ...
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... Indian life as a contraction , a foreshortening or abbreviation of sorts : ' Eating Indian ' would in this sense signify an act of reducing original difference to some- thing that , literally , becomes palatable to the American market ...
... Indian life as a contraction , a foreshortening or abbreviation of sorts : ' Eating Indian ' would in this sense signify an act of reducing original difference to some- thing that , literally , becomes palatable to the American market ...
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... Indian diaspora have sought to reconfigure the role of Indian food as a cultural signifier . Thus , the film Mississippi Masala ( 1991 , dir . Mira Nair ) uses Indian food , especially the masala , as a central conceptual figure for its ...
... Indian diaspora have sought to reconfigure the role of Indian food as a cultural signifier . Thus , the film Mississippi Masala ( 1991 , dir . Mira Nair ) uses Indian food , especially the masala , as a central conceptual figure for its ...
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