The Cultural Politics Of Food Taste And Identity

Author : Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350162747

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The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz Pdf

The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity examines the social, cultural, and political processes that shape the experience of taste. The book positions flavor as involving all the senses, and describes the multiple ways in which taste becomes tied to local, translocal, glocal, and cosmopolitan politics of identity. Global case studies are included from Japan, China, India, Belize, Chile, Guatemala, the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Spain. Chapters examine local responses to industrialized food and the heritage industry, and look at how professional culinary practice has become foundational for local identities. The book also discusses the unfolding construction of “local taste” in the context of sociocultural developments, and addresses how cultural political divides are created between meat consumption and vegetarianism, innovation and tradition, heritage and social class, popular food and authenticity, and street and restaurant food. In addition, contributors discuss how different food products-such as kimchi, quinoa, and Soylent-have entered the international market of industrial and heritage foods, connecting different places and shaping taste and political identities.

Author : Ronda L. Brulotte,Michael A. Di Giovine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317145998

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Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage by Ronda L. Brulotte,Michael A. Di Giovine Pdf

Food - its cultivation, preparation and communal consumption - has long been considered a form of cultural heritage. A dynamic, living product, food creates social bonds as it simultaneously marks off and maintains cultural difference. In bringing together anthropologists, historians and other scholars of food and heritage, this volume closely examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of 'cultural heritage' on local, regional, national and international scales. Contributors explore a range of themes, including how food is used to mark insiders and outsiders within an ethnic group; how the same food's meanings change within a particular society based on class, gender or taste; and how traditions are 'invented' for the revitalization of a community during periods of cultural pressure. Featuring case studies from Europe, Asia and the Americas, this timely volume also addresses the complex processes of classifying, designating, and valorizing food as 'terroir,' 'slow food,' or as intangible cultural heritage through UNESCO. By effectively analyzing food and foodways through the perspectives of critical heritage studies, this collection productively brings two overlapping but frequently separate theoretical frameworks into conversation.

Author : Michaela DeSoucey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691183183

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Contested Tastes by Michaela DeSoucey Pdf

An inside look at the complex and controversial debates surrounding foie gras In the past decade, the French delicacy foie gras—the fattened liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through a tube—has been at the center of contentious battles. In Contested Tastes, Michaela DeSoucey takes us to farms, restaurants, protests, and political hearings in both the United States and France to reveal why people care so passionately about foie gras—and why we should care, too. Bringing together fieldwork, interviews, and materials from archives and the media on both sides of the Atlantic, DeSoucey offers a compelling look at the moral arguments and provocative actions of pro- and anti-foie gras forces. She combines personal stories with fair-minded analysis and draws our attention to the cultural dynamics of markets, the multivocal nature of “gastropolitics,” and the complexities of what it means to identify as a “moral” eater in today’s food world. Investigating the causes and consequences of the foie gras wars, Contested Tastes illuminates the social significance of food and taste in the twenty-first century.

Author : James L. Watson,Melissa L. Caldwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:901466887

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The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating by James L. Watson,Melissa L. Caldwell Pdf

Author : Kiranmayi Bhushi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108416290

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Farm to Fingers by Kiranmayi Bhushi Pdf

"Enquires into the ways in which food and its production and consumption are enmeshed in aspects of human existence and society, taking India and its interaction with food as its focal point"--

Author : Maria José Pires
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848884496

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Tasting Cultures: Thoughts for Food by Maria José Pires Pdf

From production to preparation and consumption, inclusive and coherent food systems are studied in detail, as the multifaceted knowledge of such food phenomena is based on interdisciplinary looks.

Author : Atsuko Ichijo,Ronald Ranta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137483133

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Food, National Identity and Nationalism by Atsuko Ichijo,Ronald Ranta Pdf

Exploring a much neglected area, the relationship between food and nationalism, this book examines a number of case studies at various levels of political analysis to show how useful the food and nationalism axis can be in the study of politics.

Author : Steffan Igor Ayora-Díaz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Cooking, Mexican
ISBN : 1350066702

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Taste, Politics, and Identities in Mexican Food by Steffan Igor Ayora-Díaz Pdf

"This book examines the history, archaeology, and anthropology of Mexican taste. Contributors analyze how the contemporary identity of Mexican food has been created and formed through concepts of taste, and how this national identity is adapted and moulded through change and migration.wing on case studies with a focus on Mexico, but also including Israel and the United States, the contributors examine how local and national identities, the global market of gastronomic tourism, and historic transformations in trade, production, the kitchen space and appliances shape the taste of Mexican food and drink. Chapters include an exploration of the popularity of Mexican beer in the United States by Jeffrey M. Pilcher, an examination of the experience of eating chapulines in Oaxaca by Paulette Schuster and Jeffrey H. Cohen, an investigation into transformations of contemporary Yucatecan gastronomy by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, and an afterword from Richard Wilk. Together, the contributors demonstrate how taste itself is shaped through a history of social and cultural practices."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : James L. Watson,Melissa L. Caldwell
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0631230920

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The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating by James L. Watson,Melissa L. Caldwell Pdf

The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world. Uses food as a central idiom for teaching about culture and addresses broad themes such as globalization, capitalism, market economies, and consumption practices Spanning 5 continents, features studies from 11 countries—Japan, China, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Burkina Faso, Chile, Trinidad, Mexico, and the United States Offers discussion of such hot topics as sushi, fast food, gourmet foods, and food scares and contamination

Author : Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350183834

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Taste, Politics, and Identities in Mexican Food by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz Pdf

This book examines the history, archaeology, and anthropology of Mexican taste. Contributors analyze how the contemporary identity of Mexican food has been created and formed through concepts of taste, and how this national identity is adapted and moulded through change and migration.wing on case studies with a focus on Mexico, but also including Israel and the United States, the contributors examine how local and national identities, the global market of gastronomic tourism, and historic transformations in trade, production, the kitchen space and appliances shape the taste of Mexican food and drink. Chapters include an exploration of the popularity of Mexican beer in the United States by Jeffrey M. Pilcher, an examination of the experience of eating chapulines in Oaxaca by Paulette Schuster and Jeffrey H. Cohen, an investigation into transformations of contemporary Yucatecan gastronomy by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, and an afterword from Richard Wilk. Together, the contributors demonstrate how taste itself is shaped through a history of social and cultural practices.

Author : Cynthia Chou,Susanne Kerner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030843717

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Food, Social Change and Identity by Cynthia Chou,Susanne Kerner Pdf

Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the following questions: What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening? What triggers change and how are the changes impacting identity politics? In terms of scope and organization, this book offers a vast historical extent ranging from the 5th mill BCE to the present day. In addition, it presents case studies from across the world, including Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and America. Finally, this collection of essays presents diverse perspectives and differing methodologies. It is an accessible introduction to the study of food, social change and identity.

Author : Poonam Bala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317318224

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Medicine and Colonialism by Poonam Bala Pdf

Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories.

Author : Srirupa Prasad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137520722

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Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940 by Srirupa Prasad Pdf

This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses.

Author : Katharina Vester
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520284982

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A Taste of Power by Katharina Vester Pdf

"A Taste of Power is an investigation of the crucial role culinary texts and practices played in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies since the founding of the United States. Nutritional advice and representations of food and eating, including cookbooks, literature, magazines, newspapers, still life paintings, television shows, films, and the internet, have helped throughout American history to circulate normative claims about citizenship, gender performance, sexuality, class privilege, race, and ethnicity, while promising an increase in cultural capital and social mobility to those who comply with the prescribed norms. The study examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, as points of cultural resistance against hegemonic norms, especially in shaping dominant ideas of nationalism, gender, and sexuality, suggesting that eating right is a gateway to becoming an American, a good citizen, an ideal man, or a perfect mother. Cookbooks, as a low-prestige literary form, became the largely unheralded vehicles for women to participate in nation-building before they had access to the vote or public office, for middle-class authors to assert their class privileges, for men to claim superiority over women even in the kitchen, and for Lesbian authors to reinscribe themselves into the heteronormative economy of culinary culture. The book engages in close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780817357177

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Anthropology and the Politics of Representation by Gabriela Vargas-Cetina Pdf

This book examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole. In this book, the editor brings together a group of international scholars who, through their fieldwork experiences, reflect on the epistemological, political, and personal implications of their own work. To do so, they focus on such topics as ethnography, anthropologists' engagement in identity politics, representational practices, the contexts of anthropological research and work, and the effects of personal choices regarding self-involvement in local causes that may extend beyond purely ethnographic goals.