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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... ultimately , the absence of a coherent and structured ( national ) narrative , of a sequential history to unfold before him as he eats . His confused reading of the American table clearly imposes an European upper class view disclosing ...
... ultimately , the absence of a coherent and structured ( national ) narrative , of a sequential history to unfold before him as he eats . His confused reading of the American table clearly imposes an European upper class view disclosing ...
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... ultimately as ' art . ' 2. 1. Cannibal families Cannibalism in these films is centered around the family and the act of familial eating . Many of the films not only work to destroy the traditional family but then subsequently create an ...
... ultimately as ' art . ' 2. 1. Cannibal families Cannibalism in these films is centered around the family and the act of familial eating . Many of the films not only work to destroy the traditional family but then subsequently create an ...
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... ultimately fails to account for , the systems of formal excess that are so central to these films . Such moments of formal excess include , for example , the excessively long tracking shots in the traffic jam and piano concert sequences ...
... ultimately fails to account for , the systems of formal excess that are so central to these films . Such moments of formal excess include , for example , the excessively long tracking shots in the traffic jam and piano concert sequences ...
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