Though folkloristics was one of the founding sources of food studies, it has receded from view under the glare of cultural anthropology, social history, and sociology, and thus the first compelling aspect of this book is Magat's utilization of that fecund theoretical domain.
What could a book on balut, an embryonated duck egg, possibly teach us about the world we live in? Margaret Magat hopes to delineate a whisper of subversion in the face of cultural domination by taking a street food from a peripheral corner of the Philippines and tracing its circulation both nationally and globally, through various mass mediated urban sites and diasporas, to pose sharp questions about culinary nationalism omnivorousness and the accumulation of cultural capital and the role of old and new media.
0 kommentar(er)
