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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10 The battle over food names and their meanings is a legacy of the colonial
battles over territories and people in the Caribbean 500 years ago . The colonial
passages of the fruit can be traced by its names which thus serve as a living
archive ...
10 The battle over food names and their meanings is a legacy of the colonial
battles over territories and people in the Caribbean 500 years ago . The colonial
passages of the fruit can be traced by its names which thus serve as a living
archive ...
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Apart from place names , names for flora and fauna are thus almost the only
linguistic traces of the indigenous people of the Caribbean . There are a number
of food names whose origin is from an African language , brought to the
Caribbean ...
Apart from place names , names for flora and fauna are thus almost the only
linguistic traces of the indigenous people of the Caribbean . There are a number
of food names whose origin is from an African language , brought to the
Caribbean ...
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Of Hulaburgers and McDoners : fast food meets the ethnic If food names are kept
or even invented in ' nationality cuisines ' like Mexican , Chinese and Italian to
maintain the flavour of the authentic in the name ( if not in anything else ) , fast ...
Of Hulaburgers and McDoners : fast food meets the ethnic If food names are kept
or even invented in ' nationality cuisines ' like Mexican , Chinese and Italian to
maintain the flavour of the authentic in the name ( if not in anything else ) , fast ...
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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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