Eating Culture: The Poetics and Politics of FoodFood 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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In The Moor ' s Last Sigh ( 1994 ) playing on the Western desire for Indian spices
redefines the Indian subcontinent as " sub - condiment " because , as one
character puts it : " From the beginning , what the world wanted from bloody
mother ...
In The Moor ' s Last Sigh ( 1994 ) playing on the Western desire for Indian spices
redefines the Indian subcontinent as " sub - condiment " because , as one
character puts it : " From the beginning , what the world wanted from bloody
mother ...
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Indian food and food practices thus stood at the very beginning of the Western
colonial enterprise as they also did at the beginning of the American experiment .
In both contexts , Indian food was sign and proxy , cultural and material ...
Indian food and food practices thus stood at the very beginning of the Western
colonial enterprise as they also did at the beginning of the American experiment .
In both contexts , Indian food was sign and proxy , cultural and material ...
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... a defamiliarizing mirror - scene : whereas realistic filmic storytelling relies on
the illusion of an apparently independent diegetic space , this scene reveals
filmic space to be based on an illusionary effect right at the beginning of Itami ' s
film .
... a defamiliarizing mirror - scene : whereas realistic filmic storytelling relies on
the illusion of an apparently independent diegetic space , this scene reveals
filmic space to be based on an illusionary effect right at the beginning of Itami ' s
film .
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| Title | Eating Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Food Volume 106 of American Studies - a Monograph Series Volume 106 of American studies, ISSN 0178-1987 |
| Editors | Tobias Döring, Markus Heide, Susanne Muehleisen |
| Publisher | Winter, 2003 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 3825315193, 9783825315191 |
| Length | 284 pages |
| Subjects | › Cooking / Essays & Narratives Social Science / Popular Culture |
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