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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... cultural otherness . It is an essential part of the discursive practices that determine a commu- nity's insiders and outsiders . Eating , in this ethnic sense , does not only produce cultural meaning , it also draws boundaries between ...
... cultural otherness . It is an essential part of the discursive practices that determine a commu- nity's insiders and outsiders . Eating , in this ethnic sense , does not only produce cultural meaning , it also draws boundaries between ...
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... cultural contact and cultural difference on a larger scale . The social component of eating as an important ritual of integration fails , as we have seen in Kürn- berger's novel , to compensate for the obvious cultural difference of the ...
... cultural contact and cultural difference on a larger scale . The social component of eating as an important ritual of integration fails , as we have seen in Kürn- berger's novel , to compensate for the obvious cultural difference of the ...
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... cultural and communal identity under duress . Identities under stress , at risk , " straddling two cultures , " are ... cultural practices are by that token representations also " of a usually unscrutinized cultural ideology that ...
... cultural and communal identity under duress . Identities under stress , at risk , " straddling two cultures , " are ... cultural practices are by that token representations also " of a usually unscrutinized cultural ideology that ...
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