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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Page 63
... complete nonsense . Why would we serve cat meat ? I don't under- stand how they can write these things . Perhaps because we Chinese , we cut up the chicken meat into small pieces and they don't recognize it ? And they think we're ...
... complete nonsense . Why would we serve cat meat ? I don't under- stand how they can write these things . Perhaps because we Chinese , we cut up the chicken meat into small pieces and they don't recognize it ? And they think we're ...
Page 169
... complete with its operator was installed through the agency of magic powers . In this way , Divakaruni allows a space to open up between the discourse of her novel and its representation . Inside her narrative , this space is that of ...
... complete with its operator was installed through the agency of magic powers . In this way , Divakaruni allows a space to open up between the discourse of her novel and its representation . Inside her narrative , this space is that of ...
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... complete failure on a culinary , emotional and communicative level : the father , a former chef of a grand hotel , seems to have lost his taste buds so that his daughters only pretend to eat his food and later put everything into the ...
... complete failure on a culinary , emotional and communicative level : the father , a former chef of a grand hotel , seems to have lost his taste buds so that his daughters only pretend to eat his food and later put everything into the ...
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