Suchergebnisse

Trout still on the menu? Indigenity and cuisine / Duncan Brown -- The hummus wars: local food, Guinness records and the Palestinian-Israeli gastropolitics / Nir Avieli -- Rice, pork and power in the Vietnamese village / Erica J. Peters -- Mem and cookie: the colonial kitchen in Malaysia and Singapore / Cecilia Leong-Salobir -- Modern menus: family, food, health and gender in colonial Bengal / Ishita Banerjee-Dube -- Sweetness, gender, and identity in Japanese culinary culture / Jon D. Holtzman -- Local foods in contemporary China: the case of southwest Hubei / Xu Wu -- From the market to the kitchen and table: food and its many meanings in Dakar / Maria Guadalupe Aguilar Escobedo -- What is human?: food taboo & anthropophagy in northwest Mozambique / Arianna Huhn -- Global mixed race and culinary cultures: interethnic exchanges of food and love at Addis Ababa cafe / Jean Duruz -- The culinary myths of the Mexican nation / Sarah Bakgeller

section 1. Caste and colonialism -- section 2. Caste in practice -- section 3. Caste and politics -- section 4. Caste in everyday life

PARNA SENGUPTA, Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011, pp. 211.

This volume discusses the concepts of modernity and colonialism, and describe how the two relate to each other. It explores the vital impact of the colonial pasts of India, Mexico, China and even the Unites States on the processes through which these countries have become modern. The topics discussed include the Zapatista movement in southern Mexic

"From the shaping of identities and belongings through to current reconfigurations of nation, governance and state under a Hindu-Right dispensation, this book tracks the sentiments and structures that sustain the nation and nationalism in India. Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India provides wide-ranging accounts of the growth and transformations of the nation. It focuses especially on the intimate interplay of nation-state and nationalism with dominant religion. Drawing upon the perspectives of history, politics, anthropology, literature, film and media studies, this book explores key themes such as the appropriation and impact of western concepts of religion and the modern in postcolonial India and Pakistan, corporate bids to foster faith by erecting temples, formations of contemporary cosmopolitan religious imaginaries, the politics of cow protection, the rise of Narendra Modi as a national hero, and the fetish of the national in news channel debates. The book provides important insights into the success of the Hindu-Right, the discourse of religious-cultural nationalism, and their ramifications for democracy and citizenship"--

On the cult of Jagannātha (Hindu deity) in Purī, India