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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... Dinner " ( 1988 ) . The story opens on the first person narrator , an Indian , being taken to dinner by enlightened , well - intentioned US - American friends , " an American writer and actress who had spent a long time in India " ( 539 ) ...
... Dinner " ( 1988 ) . The story opens on the first person narrator , an Indian , being taken to dinner by enlightened , well - intentioned US - American friends , " an American writer and actress who had spent a long time in India " ( 539 ) ...
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... dinner has been organized . At the same time , the organiz- ers celebrate themselves . As the narrator , looking at the token Tibetan observes : " It cannot be easy to celebrate the commodification of one's own suffering " ( 541 ) ...
... dinner has been organized . At the same time , the organiz- ers celebrate themselves . As the narrator , looking at the token Tibetan observes : " It cannot be easy to celebrate the commodification of one's own suffering " ( 541 ) ...
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... dinner , which then ends in a complete chaos because the young woman's mother had herself hoped to be courted by the widower . Lee uses these dramatically crucial dinner scenes to show that life in contemporary Taiwan is a partly comic ...
... dinner , which then ends in a complete chaos because the young woman's mother had herself hoped to be courted by the widower . Lee uses these dramatically crucial dinner scenes to show that life in contemporary Taiwan is a partly comic ...
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