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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... customers complained about the bad smell of that dish . So I was ordered by my parents to go back to the kitchen immediately ... In thinking back this is funny . I have a restaurant now . Most customers , especially the high middle ...
... customers complained about the bad smell of that dish . So I was ordered by my parents to go back to the kitchen immediately ... In thinking back this is funny . I have a restaurant now . Most customers , especially the high middle ...
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... customers , are implicated in this negotiation process . This process is not grounded on an equal power basis . The first generation Chinese restaurateurs were constrained in their choice of profession by their immigrant status and low ...
... customers , are implicated in this negotiation process . This process is not grounded on an equal power basis . The first generation Chinese restaurateurs were constrained in their choice of profession by their immigrant status and low ...
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... customers . ( Mo 1982 : 105-106 ) 5 This extract contains a wealth of data to demonstrate the various perspec- tives on food and its versatility . The expression " food coffins " reflects , from Lily's point of view , the unnaturalness ...
... customers . ( Mo 1982 : 105-106 ) 5 This extract contains a wealth of data to demonstrate the various perspec- tives on food and its versatility . The expression " food coffins " reflects , from Lily's point of view , the unnaturalness ...
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