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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... figure of Jack and the practice of serving re - invents a paradigm of the old world in the ' racial ' disguise of the new . Many German - American texts comment on the social context of Ameri- can eating culture as a scenario in which ...
... figure of Jack and the practice of serving re - invents a paradigm of the old world in the ' racial ' disguise of the new . Many German - American texts comment on the social context of Ameri- can eating culture as a scenario in which ...
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... figure exudes an aura of professionalism and superiority which defies his ostracization on merely racial grounds ( Wied , Kürnberger ) . It is striking that apart from the perception of ' blackness ' as an American difference , racial ...
... figure exudes an aura of professionalism and superiority which defies his ostracization on merely racial grounds ( Wied , Kürnberger ) . It is striking that apart from the perception of ' blackness ' as an American difference , racial ...
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... figure of the detective . The emergence of this figure should be seen in the context of the technological intensification of visual surveillance as the most dominant power technology for sustaining cultural hegemony . In the literary ...
... figure of the detective . The emergence of this figure should be seen in the context of the technological intensification of visual surveillance as the most dominant power technology for sustaining cultural hegemony . In the literary ...
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