Rice Talks : Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town /

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"Explores the importance of cooking and eating in the everyday social life of Hoi An, a properous market town in central Vietnam known for its exceptionally elaborate and sophisticated local cuisine. In a vivid and highly personal account, Nir Avieli takes the reader from the private setting of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Avieli, Nir, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
The Vietnam War > Filmmusik
Vietnam.
Mat och dryck.
Ess- und Trinksitte
Manners and customs.
Gastronomy.
Food > Social aspects.
Food habits.
Cooking, Vietnamese.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Agriculture & Food.
Cuisine vietnamienne.
Gastronomy > Vietnam > Hội An.
Food > Social aspects > Vietnam > Hội An.
Food habits > Vietnam > Hội An.
Hoi An
Vietnam > Hội An.
Hội An (Vietnam) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Explores the importance of cooking and eating in the everyday social life of Hoi An, a properous market town in central Vietnam known for its exceptionally elaborate and sophisticated local cuisine. In a vivid and highly personal account, Nir Avieli takes the reader from the private setting of the extended family meal into the public realm of the festive, extraordinary, and unique. He shows how foodways relate to class relations, gender roles, religious practices, cosmology, ethnicity, and even local and national politics. 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."--Publisher's description
Physical Description:1 online resource (344 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780253005304

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