Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Description
Food culture forms an important part of Southeast Asia's cultural history. This paper will examine specific case studies concerning the history and anthropology of food and eating in Southeast Asia to raise questions that include: How and why food holds the power to bind people together and to set groups apart? How do food and eating represent, construct and transform identities? These questions will be examined within the frameowork of societal processes such as political-economic value-creation, symbolic and ideological meanings attached to food and eating as well as the social construction of memory.
Period
25 Jun 2010
Event title
Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia