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The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism

The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism

Ichijo, Atsuko
Johannes, Venetia
Ranta, Ronald

Hardcover

AnthropologyAgricultureGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1350074136
ISBN13: 9781350074132
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 21 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

What do deep fried mars bars, cod, and Bulgarian yoghurt have in common? Each have become symbolic foods with specific connotations, located to a very specific place and country.

This book explores the role of food in society as a means of interrogating the concept of the nation-state and its sub-units, and reveals how the nation-state in its various disguises has been and is changing in response to accelerated globalisation. The chapters investigate various stages of national food: its birth, emergence, and decline, and why sometimes no national food emerges. By collecting and analysing a wide range of case studies from countries including Portugal, Mexico, the USA, Bulgaria, Scotland, and Israel, the book illustrates ways in which various social forces work together to shape social and political realities concerning food.

The contributors, hailing from anthropology, history, sociology and political science, investigate the significance of specific food cultures, cuisines, dishes, and ingredients, and their association with national identity. In so doing, it becomes clearer how these two things interact, and demonstrates the scope and direction of the current study of food and nationalism.

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