Full Description
This book engages with the ways in which our habitual practices of cooking and eating uphold diverse forms of social, cultural, political, gendered, racialised, communal and geopolitical experiences of place and space. With diverse contributions from India, South Africa, Colombia, the United States, United Kingdom, and Jamaica, it discusses themes including modernity as a stuffed gourd; decolonising food in Colombia; culinary colonialism today; trijunction of colonialism, Hindu/India resistance, and hybridity; Hindu widows and forbidden food; Dutch colonisation of the Cape and its food sources in Bengal (India), Indonesia, and Malaysia; politicising the kitchens in India; and autoethnographic accounts of food, cooking, compliance and resistance, to underscore how patterns of cooking and eating build knowledge systems in daily life. The book also addresses the cultural and ethnic components of suppression, cultural expressions of food and belonging as is evidenced in Filipina American cultural identities marked by migration, pleasure and taste as a psycho-sexual construct at the Cape in South Africa where the enslaved understand the value of food and pleasure.
This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, philosophy, post-colonial studies, gender studies, food studies, food history, food anthropology, sociology, political sociology and social anthropology.
Contents
Palates of Pleasure I: Colonisation of Culinary Cultures 1. Palates of Pleasure, from hand to mouth: Food Existentialism, and the Slave trade at the Cape 2. Colombian cuisine and the histories of colonialism and enslavement that shaped it 3. Jamaica's Colonial Food History Palates of Pleasure II: Caste, Politics, Gender and Food 4. Exercising Power over Subaltern Bodies: Hindu Widow and Forbidden Foods 5. Eating with the 'others': Caste and religious battles inside the kitchen spaces of India 6. Zulu food, Indian culture, and the gentrification of Blackness: Towards A New Indigenous Zulu Palate for KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa 7. Filipina Food culture in the United States: Food existentialism and the Oral Tradition Palates III: Archipelagoes of Tastes 8. Food, Colonialism and Enslavement across the Ocean: India and South Africa 9. Mizo Ethnic Food Culture: Trijunction of colonialism, Hindu/India resistance and Hybridity
