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Title Making food in local and global contexts : anthropological perspectives / Atsushi Nobayashi, editor
Published Singapore : Springer, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction: Making food in the cultural and civilized contexts -- Ecology and food. Gastronomical goods as a biocultural value of wood pastures in Eastern Europe -- Merroir in the making : provenance fetishism and the social construction of taste in the Japanese seafood system -- The socio-cultural reception of MSG (monosodium glutamate) in Thailand -- Social context of food. Sharing food and conviviality in the Mediterranean diet. some ethnographic examples -- Rethinking foodscapes. does it matter how food reaches my plate? -- Rethinking family commensality : through Japanese cases and Italian ones -- Ethnicity in foodscape. The "making" of Hakka cuisine : a case study for the formation of ethnic food and its foodscapes in southeast China -- Tubawan and the play of authorial slippage : the Sani Yi people's practice of hospitality business and the making of indigenous foodscape -- Translocal foodscapes : gastronomic creativity in Merida, Mexico, and Seville, Spain -- Food and nation. The tea industry in modern China and public demand for tea -- On the formation of Chinese national cuisine : historical and anthropological perspectives
Summary This book is a collection of research focusing on the anthropological aspects of how food is made in modern society from both global and local perspectives. Modern food consumed in any society is created in a variety of natural and cultural environments. There is a "food democracy" in which how we procure and share food can be an indicator of our participation in society, while food nurtured in particular climates and land can be transmitted to the outside world owing to the influence of tourism and the global economy, a phenomenon that is recognized on a global scale as exemplified by the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. In other words, food is an aspect of both culture and civilization. Anthropological approaches are used to reveal the humanistic aspects of food, highlighting the strength and individuality of regional and ethnic foods in global civilizations. The book is a compilation of results from sessions of the international symposium "Making Food in Human and Natural History", which took place on March 18 and 19, 2019, in Osaka, Japan
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 6, 2022)
Subject Food.
Food -- Social aspects
Nutritional anthropology.
food.
Food
Food -- Social aspects
Nutritional anthropology
Form Electronic book
Author Nobayashi, Atsushi, 1967- editor.
ISBN 9789811910487
9811910480