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Title Food and identity in the Caribbean / edited by Hanna Garth.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-167) and index.
Contents Food and Identity in the Caribbean; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Understanding Caribbean Identity through Food; 1 Cassava and the Makushi: A Shared History of Resiliency and Transformation; 2 Transformations in Body and Cuisine in Rural Yucatán, Mexico; 3 Tourism, Seafood Memories, and Identity: Lessons from Roatán, Honduras; 4 Versions of Dominican Mangú: Intersections of Gender and Nation in Caribbean Self-making; 5 The Intersections of "Guyanese Food" and Constructions of Gender, Race, and Nationhood
6 Cooking Cubanidad: Food Importation and Cuban Identity in Santiago de Cuba7 From Colonial Dependency to Finger-lickin' Values: Food, Commoditization, and Identity in Trinidad; 8 Peasant Resistance to Hybrid Seed in Haiti: The Implications of Agro-industrial Inputs through Humanitarian Aid on Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Cultural Identity; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This collection of original essays explores food and identity in the Caribbean, as contemporary political and economic changes impact upon culinary identities. Through rich ethnographies, the volume reveals how connections between food and identity persist and evolve against the odds.
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Subject Food habits -- Caribbean Area.
Food -- Caribbean Area -- Psychological aspects.
Identity (Psychology) -- Caribbean Area.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Sociology & anthropology.
National & regional cuisine.
Food & society.
COOKING -- Regional & ethnic -- Caribbean & West Indian.
Food habits
Food -- Psychological aspects
Identity (Psychology)
Caribbean Area
Added Author Garth, Hanna.
Other Form: Print version: Food and identity in the Caribbean 9780857853578 (DLC) 2012022576 (OCoLC)862537490
ISBN 9780857853592 (electronic bk.)
0857853597 (electronic bk.)
9780857853578
0857853570
9780857853585
0857853589
0857853597 (epub)
Standard No. 60001740560