Curried Cultures - Globalization, Food, and South Asia (Hardcover)

Although South Asian cookery and gastronomy has transformed contemporary urban foodscape all over the world, social scientists have paid scant attention to this phenomenon. "Curried Cultures"OCoa wide-ranging collection of essaysOCoexplores the relationship between globalization and South Asia through food, covering the cuisine of the colonial period to the contemporary era, investigating its material and symbolic meanings. "Curried Cultures" challenges disciplinary boundaries in considering South Asian gastronomy by assuming a proximity to dishes and diets that is often missing when food is a lens to investigate other topics. The bookOCOs established scholarly contributors examine food to comment on a range of cultural activities as they argue that the practice of cooking and eating matter as an important way of knowing the world and acting on it.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	California Studies in Food and Culture, 34
Release date:	March 2012
First published:	May 2012
Editors:	Krishnendu Ray • Tulasi Srinivas
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-27011-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
LSN:	0-520-27011-8
Barcode:	9780520270114

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