Ethnic and regional foodways in the United States : the performance of group identity / Linda Keller Brown and Kay Mussell, co-editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Linda Keller.

Mussell, Kay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--United States.

Food habits.

Ethnic folklore--United States.

Ethnic folklore.

Food--Folklore.

Food.

Ethnic groups.

Ethnicity.

Feeding Behavior.

United States.

ethnic groups.

Medical Subjects:

Ethnicity.

Feeding Behavior.

United States.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Folklore.

Physical Description:

271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1984.

Summary:

How do customs surrounding the preparation and consumption of food define minorities within a population? The question receives fascinating and multifaceted answers in this book, which considers a smorgasbord of dishes that sustain group identity and often help to bridge inter-group barriers. The essays explore the symbolic meaning of sharing foodways in interpreting inter- and intra-group behavior, with attention to theoretical problems and implications of foodways research for public policy. Topics receiving rewarding analysis in this volume include food festivals, modes of food preparation, meal cycles, seasonal celebrations, nutrition education, and the U.S. government's inattention to ethnic customs in formulating its food policies.

Contents:

Equal opportunity eating : a structural excursus on things of the mouth / Roger Abrahams

Ethnic foodways in America : symbol and the performance of identity / Susan Kalčik

A framework for the analysis of continuity and change in shared sociocultural rules for food use : the Italian-American pattern / Judith Goode, Janet Theophano, and Karen Curtis

Metaphor and changing reality : the foodways and beliefs of the Russian Molokans in the United States / Willard B. Moore

Why migrant women feed their husbands tamales : foodways as a basis for a revisionist view of Tejano family life / Brett Williams

Food and celebration : a kosher caterer as mediator of communal traditions / Leslie Prosterman

A wilderness in the megalopolis : foodways in the pine barrens of New Jersey / Angus K. Gillespie

The social and symbolic uses of ethnic/regional foodways : cajuns and crawfish in south Louisiana / C. Paige Gutierrez

Exotic foods among Italian-Americans in Mormon Utah : food as nostalgic enactment of identity / Richard Raspa

Conversion through foodways enculturation : the meaning of eating in an American Hindu sect / Eliot A. Singer

Economic, social, and cultural factors in the analysis of disease : dietary change and diabetes mellitus among the Florida Seminole indians / Sandra K. Joos

Food for ethnic Americans : is the government trying to turn the melting pot into a one-dish dinner? / Judy Perkin and Stephanie F. McCann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-263) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

ISBN:

087049418X

9780870494185

0870494198

9780870494192

OCLC:

9894583