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Rice talks : food and community in a Vietnamese town / Nir Avieli.

Avieli, Nir, 1966-
2012
GT2853.V5 A85 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Rice talks : food and community in a Vietnamese town / Nir Avieli.
Author
Avieli, Nir, 1966-
ISBN
9780253357076 (alk. paper)
0253357071 (alk. paper)
9780253223708 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253223709 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Description
xvi, 323 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Call Number
GT2853.V5 A85 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
394.1/2095975
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Deciphering the Hoianese meal
The social dynamics of the home meal
Local specialties, local identity
Feasting with the dead and the living
Wedding feasts : from culinary scenarios to gastro-anomie
Food and identity in community festivals
Rice cakes and candied oranges : culinary symbolism in the big Vietnamese festivals
Conclusion : food and culture
interconnections.

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