Introduction

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Food creates, maintains, negotiates and expresses various kinds of social identities. Yet, conceptions of food and foodways can also change to signify very different things as social changes happen. An overview of how the interplay of food, social change and identity has long interested researchers brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area studies specialists, linguists and food policy administrators in this book to ponder over the following questions: What triggers change? What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening? How are the changes impacting on identity politics? The discussions cross time and space to provide insights into many themes such as food and power, food and environment, food and nationalism as well as food and social policy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFood, Social Change and Identity
EditorsCynthia Chou, Susanne Kerner
Number of pages15
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date2021
Pages1-15
ISBN (Print)9783030843731
ISBN (Electronic)9783030843717
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
SeriesConsumption and Public Life
VolumeXVII

    Research areas

  • Faculty of Humanities - Food, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Change, Identity, Power

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