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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... restaurant owners succeed in evoking an Asian mood . No one has so far raised the ' authenticity ' issue . The restaurant Kei Kei in Antwerp offers food which is a mixture of Chinese and Japanese food , although the terms used in the ...
... restaurant owners succeed in evoking an Asian mood . No one has so far raised the ' authenticity ' issue . The restaurant Kei Kei in Antwerp offers food which is a mixture of Chinese and Japanese food , although the terms used in the ...
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... restaurant - owner ( thirty - six years old ) still recalls vividly how certain foodstuffs have been gradually integrated in the menu of Chinese restaurants : When I was twelve or thirteen years old , I remember still very well that I ...
... restaurant - owner ( thirty - six years old ) still recalls vividly how certain foodstuffs have been gradually integrated in the menu of Chinese restaurants : When I was twelve or thirteen years old , I remember still very well that I ...
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... restaurants . One restaurant owner gave me this account why he dropped that item from the menu : When my father was running this restaurant , people could order steak with fries . When I took over the restaurant about eleven years ago ...
... restaurants . One restaurant owner gave me this account why he dropped that item from the menu : When my father was running this restaurant , people could order steak with fries . When I took over the restaurant about eleven years ago ...
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