Nir Avieli

Rice Talks

Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This evocative study departs from conventional anthropological research on food by stressing the rich meanings, generative capacities, and potential subversion embedded in foodways and eating.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780253223708
• ISBN-10: 0253223709
• Artikelnr.: 33610127

Autorenporträt

Nir Avieli is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Deciphering the Hoianese Meal
2. The Social Dynamics of the Home Meal
3. Local Specialties-Local Identity
4. Feasting with the Dead and the Living
5. Wedding Feasts: From Culinary Scenarios to Gastro-anomie
6. Food and Identity in Hoianese Community Festivals
7. Rice-cakes and Candied Oranges: Culinary Symbolism
in the Big Vietnamese Festivals
Conclusion: Food and Culture Interconnections
Epilogue: Doing Fieldwork in Hoi An
Glossary
Notes
References
Index