Encounters

Encounters
Author: Easton Lee
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2003
Genre: Chinese
ISBN: 9766371652

The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity

The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity
Author: Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2021-04-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350162744

The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity examines the social, cultural, and political processes that shape the experience of taste. The book positions flavor as involving all the senses, and describes the multiple ways in which taste becomes tied to local, translocal, glocal, and cosmopolitan politics of identity. Global case studies are included from Japan, China, India, Belize, Chile, Guatemala, the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Spain. Chapters examine local responses to industrialized food and the heritage industry, and look at how professional culinary practice has become foundational for local identities. The book also discusses the unfolding construction of “local taste” in the context of sociocultural developments, and addresses how cultural political divides are created between meat consumption and vegetarianism, innovation and tradition, heritage and social class, popular food and authenticity, and street and restaurant food. In addition, contributors discuss how different food products-such as kimchi, quinoa, and Soylent-have entered the international market of industrial and heritage foods, connecting different places and shaping taste and political identities.

Rich Family's Dangerous Marriage

Rich Family's Dangerous Marriage
Author: Li Shu
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 1237
Release: 2020-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1648571271

Falling in love lies, by love enemies framing, from the unreachable school beauty, become thousands of points of the Little Three. She had to run away from all the infamy on her own. Three years later, being infatuated with her, he forgot that he had to marry her due to the old injuries. Even though he was betrayed, his marriage was just a trade to her ...

Heritage in the Body

Heritage in the Body
Author: Kristina Baines
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2024-11-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0816554099

Through storytelling, ethnography, and interviews, this volume examines how Indigenous Maya and Garifuna Belizeans--both in Belize and in the United States--navigate macro-level processes such as economic development, climate change, political shifts, and global health crises in the context of changes in their own lives. Employing an embodied ecological heritage (EEH) framework, this work explores the links between health and heritage. It offers insights into how heritage practices become embodied as ways to maintain and support happy, healthy lives.

Bite Yu Finga!

Bite Yu Finga!
Author: Lyra Hanna Spang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789766407148

Bite Yu Finga! takes culinary explorers far beyond the restrictive parameters of western European-derived fine dining. This engaging ethnography traces the path of national cuisine formation in the young post-colonial country of Belize. With captivating anecdotes and solid data, Lyra Spang describes the important role of tourism in driving culinary innovation in Belize and the powerful influence of cultural politics on the process of deciding whose food is considered Belizean. Spang champions gastronationalism as a patriotic imperative, calling for further research on culinary innovation and development in post-colonial nations. She challenges the Belizean tourism industry to embrace a creative, diverse and inclusive cuisine that fairly represents the country.

Creoles of Sierra Leone Proverbs ?Parables?Wise Sayings

Creoles of Sierra Leone Proverbs ?Parables?Wise Sayings
Author: Eyamidé E. Lewis-Coker
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 154625272X

Proverbs, parables, and wise sayings are meaningful short sayings or vehicles through which morals are transmitted to adults, youths, and children. They are life experiences that Africans utilized to understand their past and present lives. These means of expressions are vital to the African culture as they transmit wisdom, truth, morals, and lessons that convey traditional views passed down from generation to generation. Africans and mostly older Africans communicate to adults, adolescences, and children by means of proverbs, parables, and wise sayingstransmitting messages, imparting warnings, solving problems, influencing behaviors, helping to avoid unwanted outcomes, and shaping or molding, especially the children as they journey through life. Proverbs, parables, and wise sayings are the instinctive or spontaneous methods of learning anytime and anywhere through conversations in an African community. As the conversations linger, they are revitalized by these short sayings. These modes keep the African children active and interested in the world around them, as well as their own development. These short sayings, in simple terms, are the daughters of daily-life experiences. They are not explained after they have been expressed; instead, adults, youths, and children used them to improve their communication and listening skills, develop creative imaginative and thinking skills, understand the meaning of life, and be familiar with the element of each proverb that was transmitted. Proverbs, parables, and wise sayings are the oral literature of the Creoles or Krios of Sierra Leone. Each proverb is understood when expressed in ordinary conversation. The role and importance of proverbs, parables, and wise sayings in conversations of each ethnic group of Sierra Leone provide a colorful, vibrant, and poetic picture of the African culture and its characteristics.

Reclaiming African Religions in Trinidad

Reclaiming African Religions in Trinidad
Author: Frances Henry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789766401290

Exploring various African religions as part of a cultural system, relevant to national identity in Trinidad, this text deals with the dynamic doctrinal and ideological changes that have occurred within the religions and documents the legislative and social acceptance of African religion.

Immortal Martial Sovereign

Immortal Martial Sovereign
Author: An ShengFou
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2020-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1648845967

Yi Hao was originally a peerless expert of the Everlasting Continent, but he was schemed to death by disciple Gong Yangjun. A thousand years after his rebirth, Gong Yangjun dominated the mainland. In this life, I will change my fate and take back what belongs to me!