ISBN:
3825315193
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 284 S.
,
Ill.
,
22 cm
Series Statement:
American studies 106
Series Statement:
American studies
Keywords:
Food Congresses Philosophy
;
Food habits Congresses
;
Food in literature Congresses
;
Food in motion pictures Congresses
;
Dinners and dining
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Ess- und Trinksitte
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Englisches Sprachgebiet
;
Film
;
Speise
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Abstract:
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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