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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... social and professional position for themselves . In fact , German visitors comment on the fact that not only do black people appear as the " Dienstbotenschicht " ( Sealsfield 1972-91 : 98 ) of American life , they also stress that ...
... social and professional position for themselves . In fact , German visitors comment on the fact that not only do black people appear as the " Dienstbotenschicht " ( Sealsfield 1972-91 : 98 ) of American life , they also stress that ...
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... social credibility without feeling real regret for this , she sends an inappropriate gift of food and , through her mortification at its rejection , begins to move towards the self - awareness that will end in her recognition of her ...
... social credibility without feeling real regret for this , she sends an inappropriate gift of food and , through her mortification at its rejection , begins to move towards the self - awareness that will end in her recognition of her ...
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... social sanction of a formal and public engagement , and like Marianne , she is then reduced to refusing food simultaneously to reassert control of herself and signal her trauma . Emma's insensitivity to this self - destructive twist on ...
... social sanction of a formal and public engagement , and like Marianne , she is then reduced to refusing food simultaneously to reassert control of herself and signal her trauma . Emma's insensitivity to this self - destructive twist on ...
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