258 pp. January 2002
cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-2544-7, $57.00
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Asia
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sociology
anthropology |
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Asian Food: The Global and the Local
ed. by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka; Boudewijn C.A. Walraven
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“Useful as a teaching tool either as an entire volume or as individual chapters. I strongly recommend this volume to anyone with an interest in Asian foodways and ... as ‘food for thought’ for another perspective on globalization.” —Pacific Affairs 76 (2003)
By documenting, analyzing, and interpreting the transformations in the local diets of Asian peoples within the last hundred years, this volume tries to pinpoint the consequences of the tension between homogenization and cultural heterogenization, which is so characteristic for today’s global interaction. By focusing on Asian foodways, the contributors demonstrate how the local and global forces negotiate new hybrid lifestyles, how new commodities become embedded in new cultures and how new identities are embraced through the acceptance and rejection of new forms of consumption. Contributors: Helen Bush, Cheng Sea-ling, Pat Caplan, Katarzyna Cwiertka, Adel P. Den Hartog, Robert W. Pemberton, Anneke Van Otterloo, Boudewijn C. A. Walraven, Merry I. White, Rory Williams.
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is associate in research at the Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies at Leiden University. Boudewijn C. A. Walraven is professor of Korean language and culture at Leiden University.
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