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Zusatztext By thinking through the function and provenance of eponymous dishes, Brazilian Food interrogates how food might carry traces of its temporal, spatial, ethnic, and regional history. For Fajans, it is the very kinds of power that food animates that makes it so incredibly good to think with ... Brazilian Food tries to help readers consider what it is about Brazilian food that makes it good for thinking with. Informationen zum Autor Jane Fajans is an Associate Professor at Cornell University, USA. She is the author of They Make Themselves: Work and Play among the Baining of Papua New Guinea and editor of Exchanging Products: Producing Exchange, Oceania Monograph 43. Brazil is a nation of vast expanses and variation of geography, climate and language. Brazilian Food explores the role of food in the construction of identity through key case studies, demonstrating how cuisine is a key element in attracting tourists and making aspects of culture known beyond Brazil's borders. Vorwort Written by a leading anthropologist, this is the first in-depth study of Brazilian national and regional cuisine which explores the role of food in the construction of identity in Brazil. Zusammenfassung Brazil is a nation of vast expanses and variation of geography, climate and language. Brazilian Food explores the role of food in the construction of identity through key case studies, demonstrating how cuisine is a key element in attracting tourists and making aspects of culture known beyond Brazil's borders. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroductionIs Bahian Moqueca Just be Fish Stew?: Food and Identity in Salvador, BahiaPara's Amazonian Identity: Manioc Six Ways Açaí: From the Amazon to the World 'Home Cooking' from the Heartland: The Comida Caseira of Minas GeraisChurrasco a Rodízio and Feijoada Completa: The Culinary Production of an Imagined National CommunityThe Chemistry of Identity: Cooking up a New View of a NationConclusionsGlossaryBibliographyIndex...
