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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Colonial passages : banana , fig and plantain The inverse strategy , i . e . a
narrowing of meaning , is applied in the Anglo - Caribbean denomination of a
particularly tricky food candidate : ' fig , ' ' banana ' and ' plantain ' are all used to
denote ...
Colonial passages : banana , fig and plantain The inverse strategy , i . e . a
narrowing of meaning , is applied in the Anglo - Caribbean denomination of a
particularly tricky food candidate : ' fig , ' ' banana ' and ' plantain ' are all used to
denote ...
Page 76
This became inadequate in the face of ripe plantain or ripe fig = yellow when
eaten , eaten cooked . A more refined and simplified classification based solely
on banana = eaten raw vs . fig / plantain = eaten cooked had to be revised to
account ...
This became inadequate in the face of ripe plantain or ripe fig = yellow when
eaten , eaten cooked . A more refined and simplified classification based solely
on banana = eaten raw vs . fig / plantain = eaten cooked had to be revised to
account ...
Page 186
Mr Cole took her to the stall of a woman selling boli , which is the Yoruba name
for roasted plantain . [ . . . ] They took Ma to the police station and forced her to
drink a big bowl of gari with water . Gari is a tasteless sort of flour made from ...
Mr Cole took her to the stall of a woman selling boli , which is the Yoruba name
for roasted plantain . [ . . . ] They took Ma to the police station and forced her to
drink a big bowl of gari with water . Gari is a tasteless sort of flour made from ...
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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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