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The Sociocultural and Economic Evolution of Mansaf in Hartha, Northern Jordan

open access: yesHumanities, 2016
Food and cooking techniques play key roles in preserving cultural sustainability and individual identity. Everything people eat becomes a part of not only their biological being, but also represents and identifies a part of a community’s sociocultural ...
Ammar Abdelkarim Ali Alobiedat
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Foodways in transition: food plants, diet and local perceptions of change in a Costa Rican Ngäbe community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background Indigenous populations are undergoing rapid ethnobiological, nutritional and socioeconomic transitions while being increasingly integrated into modernizing societies. To better understand the dynamics of these transitions, this article aims
A Constenla   +62 more
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Foodways, Campervans and the Terms of Mobility: Transnational Belonging, Home, and Heritage in the Narrative of “Sud Italia”

open access: yesHumanities, 2016
International popular culture continues to remediate and perpetuate the link between food and ideas of Italian identity. A range of analytical approaches have become concerned with food and drink in Italian culture: the importance of food industries in ...
Georgia Wall
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Food Roots & Today’s Pantry: The Multiple Meanings of “Thrifty Know-How” among Older African American Women

open access: yesAnthropology & Aging, 2020
In this article we put the themes of gender, agency, food tradition, and time, which are central to the food studies literature into conversation with the research on aging and food security to offer an intersectional analysis of older African-American ...
Katherine Lambert-Pennington   +1 more
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Doenjang in the Air: Maangchi and the Mediation of Korean Cultural Authenticity

open access: yesHumanities, 2023
In this article, I explore the ways that women of the Korean diaspora engage in cultural meaning-making through material culture in efforts to redefine what it means for people, things, and ideas to be considered “authentically Korean”.
Justin Sprague
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Framing the Latin American nutrition transition in a historical perspective, 1850 to the present [PDF]

open access: yesHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
This paper argues that many of the foundations and trends that led to the rise in obesity and other diet-related health problems in Latin America began to develop in the late nineteenth century. The tendency towards presentism in the nutrition transition
Jonathan D. Ablard
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When convenience is inconvenient: ‘healthy’ family foodways and the persistent intersectionalities of gender and class [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article draws on findings from an auto/biographical study about relationships with food to demonstrate how everyday foodways continue to be influenced by the intersectionalities of gender and class. Following Bourdieu [1984.
Parsons, JM
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The Dish of Theseus

open access: yesSemiotic Review, 2020
In this paper, I use the semiotic, practical, and material movements of cuisine over time to address a well-worn paradox in philosophy. Incorporating perspectives on intangible heritage, I ground the paper in linguistic approaches to foodways. By taking
Shanti Morell-Hart
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A taste of the unfamiliar: understanding the meanings attached to food by international postgraduate students in England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Using findings from semi-structured interviews with international postgraduate students in England, this paper explores the meanings attached to the food they eat in a new culture.
Abraído-Lanza   +49 more
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