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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Avieli, Nir, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Vietnamese.

Food habits--Vietnam--Hoi An.

Food habits.

Food--Social aspects--Vietnam--Hoi An.

Food.

Gastronomy--Vietnam--Hoi An.

Gastronomy.

Hội An (Vietnam)--Social life and customs.

Hội An (Vietnam).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613626325

9781280596490

128059649X

9780253005304

0253005302

OCLC:

795843986