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Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town

Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town


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Rice Talks 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.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Deciphering the Hoianese Meal 2. The Social Dynamics of the Home Meal 3. Local Specialties–Local Identity 4. Feasting with the Dead and the Living 5. Wedding Feasts: From Culinary Scenarios to Gastro-anomie 6. Food and Identity in Hoianese Community Festivals 7. Rice-cakes and Candied Oranges: Culinary Symbolism in the Big Vietnamese Festivals Conclusion: Food and Culture Interconnections Epilogue: Doing Fieldwork in Hoi An Glossary Notes References Index

About the Author :
Nir Avieli is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Review :
"In this very engaging narrative Avieli captures the flavour and richness of everyday lowland Vietnamese life, as well as the trials and tribulations of attempting to eke out a livelihood, fit within family hierarchical structures, and correctly pay homage to the necessary deities and ancestors." Sarah Turner, McGill University "[A]n important contribution to the field of anthropology, but also the field of Southeast Asian studies. General readers with an interest in Vietnamese, Southeast Asian, and Asian cuisines and/or the influences of colonialism on local foodways would find the work useful... And almost any non-academic writer planning to do food-related research anywhere in the world could take something away from the manuscript's final chapter, which discusses the practicalities of this type of research." Robyn Eckhardt, author of EatingAsia


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253223708
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 344
  • Sub Title: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0253223709
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 548 gr


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