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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... consumers . Particular foodstuffs and dishes are linked to particular ethnic identity . Both producers and consumers of food engage in creating an image of the ' other ' by enlarging the differences rather than the commonalties . The ...
... consumers . Particular foodstuffs and dishes are linked to particular ethnic identity . Both producers and consumers of food engage in creating an image of the ' other ' by enlarging the differences rather than the commonalties . The ...
Page 79
... consumer goods ; by now everyone knows that the product as bought - that is , experienced - by the consumer is by no means the real product ; between the former and the latter there is a considerable production of false perceptions and ...
... consumer goods ; by now everyone knows that the product as bought - that is , experienced - by the consumer is by no means the real product ; between the former and the latter there is a considerable production of false perceptions and ...
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... consumer / readership - such neat classification undoubtedly runs into problems with a growing global- ization and the emergence of hybrid patterns . This is indeed acknowledged in the article when the author tentatively notes that food ...
... consumer / readership - such neat classification undoubtedly runs into problems with a growing global- ization and the emergence of hybrid patterns . This is indeed acknowledged in the article when the author tentatively notes that food ...
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