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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... racial presence / divide . The meal creates an occasion for the ' consump- tion ' of difference : the food as well as the black presence . It is this combi- nation of culinary practice and racial politics that is played out in different ...
... racial presence / divide . The meal creates an occasion for the ' consump- tion ' of difference : the food as well as the black presence . It is this combi- nation of culinary practice and racial politics that is played out in different ...
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... racial grounds ( Wied , Kürnberger ) . It is striking that apart from the perception of ' blackness ' as an American difference , racial matters are not coherently addressed in German - American texts but tend to be displaced onto other ...
... racial grounds ( Wied , Kürnberger ) . It is striking that apart from the perception of ' blackness ' as an American difference , racial matters are not coherently addressed in German - American texts but tend to be displaced onto other ...
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... racial matters ; this observation ironically undercuts and reverses notions of ( white ) culture , civilization and ( black ) barbarism of that time . We can again connect this attitude to the ambivalent view on America's modernity held ...
... racial matters ; this observation ironically undercuts and reverses notions of ( white ) culture , civilization and ( black ) barbarism of that time . We can again connect this attitude to the ambivalent view on America's modernity held ...
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