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Food and Foodways in Asia: Resource, Tradition and Cooking (Anthropology of Asia) by Sidney C. H Cheung; Chee Beng Tan; Siumi Maria Tam is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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With chapters written by prominent anthropologists, this title provides the reader with rich ethnographic analysis of the changing process in the production of food and foodways throughout Asia. Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism. However, a truly comprehensive view of food cannot neglect the politics of food production, in particular, how, when, from where and even why different kinds of food are produced, prepared and supplied. Food and Foodways in Asia is an anthropological inquiry providing rich ethnographic description and analysis of food production as it interacts with social and political complexities in Asia's diverse cultures. Prominent anthropologists examine how food is related to ethnic identity and boundary formation, consumerism and global food distribution, and the invention of local cuisine in the context of increasing cultural contact. With chapters ranging from the invention of 'local food' for tourism development, to Asia's contribution to 'world cuisine, ' Food and F

Author

Sidney C. H Cheung; Chee Beng Tan; Siumi Maria Tam

Publisher

London ; New York: Routledge

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203947128

Subjects

Anthropology, Folklore, Science