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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... established , cooking and eating may define group and gender identities , celebrate social cohesion and perform rituals of cultural belonging . But while classic food studies followed Claude Lévi - Strauss and Mary Douglas in ...
... established , cooking and eating may define group and gender identities , celebrate social cohesion and perform rituals of cultural belonging . But while classic food studies followed Claude Lévi - Strauss and Mary Douglas in ...
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... established the approach to culture as a contested signifying practice and , with the emphasis on textual strategies , showed how each act of cultural representation establishes specific and persistent meanings that cannot be claimed to ...
... established the approach to culture as a contested signifying practice and , with the emphasis on textual strategies , showed how each act of cultural representation establishes specific and persistent meanings that cannot be claimed to ...
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... established rural order from the fashionable extravagance of urban life . Mrs Elton has previously lived with wealthy friends near Bristol and Bath , and makes repeated reference to city habits when she marries Highbury's vicar and ...
... established rural order from the fashionable extravagance of urban life . Mrs Elton has previously lived with wealthy friends near Bristol and Bath , and makes repeated reference to city habits when she marries Highbury's vicar and ...
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