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Rice talks : food and community in a Vietnamese town

Avieli, Nir, 1966-

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\"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.

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Subject: Food habits Vietnam Hội An. / Food Social aspects Vietnam Hội An. / Gastronomy Vietnam Hội An. / Cooking, Vietnamese. / Hội An (Vietnam) Social life and customs.
• ISBN: 9780253357076, 0253357071, 9780253223708, 0253223709, 9780253005304, 0253005302

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GT2853.V5 A85 2012	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE