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Eating Together: Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore
Contributor(s): Duruz, Jean (Author), Khoo, Gaik Cheng (Author)
ISBN: 1442227400     ISBN-13: 9781442227408
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
OUR PRICE:   $101.97  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Agriculture & Food
- Cooking | History
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 394.12
LCCN: 2014030099
Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.21" W x 9.25" (1.23 lbs) 278 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast Asian
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
 
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Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space and identity within everyday spaces of "public" eating in Malaysia and Singapore, the authors enter street stalls, hawker centers, markets, cafes, restaurants, "food streets," and "ethnic" neighborhoods to offer a broader picture of the meaning of eating in public places. The book creates a strong sense of the ways different people live, eat, work, and relax together, and traces negotiations and accommodations in these dynamics. The motif of rojak (Malay, meaning "mixture"), together with Ien Ang's evocative "together-in-difference," enables the analysis to move beyond the immediacy of street eating with its moments of exchange and remembering. Ultimately, the book traces the political tensions of "different" people living together, and the search for home and identity in a world on the move. Each of the chapters designates a different space for exploring these cultures of "mixedness" and their contradictions-whether these involve "old" and "new" forms of sociality, struggles over meanings of place, or frissons of pleasure and risk in eating "differently." Simply put, Eating Together is about understanding complex forms of multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore through the mind, tongue, nose, and eyes.