Food Identities at Home and on the Move
Series Editors: Victor Buchli and Rosie Cox
This exciting new series responds to the growing interest in the home as an area of research and teaching. Highly interdisciplinary, titles feature contributions from across the social sciences, including anthropology, material culture studies, architecture and design, sociology, gender studies, migration studies, and environmental studies. Relevant to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers, the series will consolidate the home as a field of study.
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Contents
Meredith E. Abarca
Ral Matta, Charles-douard de Suremain and Chantal Crenn
Voltaire Cang
Rebecca Haboucha
Elsa Mescoli
Chantal Crenn
Giovanna Palutan and Donatella Schmidt
Roos Gerritsen
Charles-douard de Suremain
Aline Hmond
Meltem Trkz
Daniela Lazoroska
Eija Stark
Nora Kottmann
Guide
Meredith E. Abarca (PhD in Comparative Literature, University of California at Davis, 2000) is Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She teaches Chicana/o Literature, Mexican-American Folklore, Major American Authors, Literature of the Americas and Literary Studies. She also teaches graduate courses that examine the intersection of literature and globalism, cosmopolitanism and food as cultural and theoretical discourses. She is the author of Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working-Class Mexican and Mexican American Women (2006). Her work has appeared in Food and Foodways and Food, Culture & Society, as well as in edited collections and encyclopaedias.
Voltaire Cang (PhD in Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, 2008) is Senior Researcher at the Tokyo-based RINRI Institute of Ethics. His work focuses on Japanese intangible heritage and its relationship to Japanese society, culture and identity, in areas concerning food studies, material culture and the study of Japanese cultural traditions such as the tea ceremony. His most recent publications include Japans Washoku as Intangible Heritage: The Role of National Food Traditions in UNESCOs Cultural Heritage Scheme (International Journal of Cultural Property, 2019) and Policing Washoku: The Performance of Culinary Nationalism in Japan (Food and Foodways, 2019).
Chantal Crenn is Associate Professor of anthropology at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne and researcher at the units Passages and Les Afriques dans le Monde (CNRS). She is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Anthropology of Food. Her research lies at the intersection of food and migration studies in the context of south-western France, with a particular focus on Malagasy elites, agricultural workers from the Maghreb and commuting migrants from Senegal. Among her most recent publications are the special issue Migration, Food Practices and Social Relations (Anthropology of Food, 2010); Ethnic Identity, Power, Compromise and Territory, in J. Maclancy (ed), Alternative Countrysides: Anthropological Approaches to Rural Western Europe Today (Manchester University Press, 2017) and Ce que les musulmans nous disent de la campagne girondine (Ethnologie franaise, 2017).
Roos Gerritsen (PhD in Anthropology, Leiden University 2012) is an independent researcher whose work focuses on popular visual culture, Tamil film, media, food, urban spaces and the senses in south India. Her current project explores new urban food practices in India. It revolves around questions of healthy and ethical food practices and the ways in which urban middle-class citizens in south India articulate everyday utopias and the good life. The project specifically uses visual research methods to attend to sensorial experiences of such emerging urban practices. Her publications include the monograph Intimate Visualities Fandom, and the Politics of Spectacle in South India (2019, AUP), Intimacy on Display: Movie Stars, Images and Everyday Life in South India (in Visual Anthropology, 2016) and Keeping in Control: The Figure of the Fan in the Tamil Film Industry (in Studies in South Asian Film & Media, 2016).
Rebecca Haboucha is PhD candidate in Archaeology with a specialization in heritage studies at the University of Cambridge. Her other degrees include an MPhil in Archaeology and BA Honours in Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and McGill University, respectively. Rebeccas doctoral research examines how to sustainably preserve Indigenous cultural heritage impacted by climate change in the Global North and South. She has worked with the Dehcho First Nations in sub-Arctic Canada, as well as with Quechua and Aymara peoples in northern Chile. Indigenous foodways is one aspect she explores, as it and its associated intangible heritage are being lost. Her other research interest includes the heritagization of food, particularly in relation to minorities within larger cultural and religious minorities. Her most recent publication is On the Edge of the Anthropocene? Modern Climate Change and the Practice of Archaeology (with J. E. Meharry and M. Comer, Archaeological Review from Cambridge, 2017).
Aline Hmond (PhD in Anthropology, University Paris X Nanterre, 1998) is Full Professor of Anthropology and researcher at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, France. Her research interests focus on aesthetic and identity processes, critical heritage studies, anthropology of ritual, Mexican and Latino studies. Since 2014, she has been conducting fieldwork on Indian artistic mobilities between Mexico and the United States. Among her publications are Peindre la rvolte. Esthtique et rsistance culturelle au Mexique (2003); the special issue Comidas Rituales (ritual foods; Anthropology of Food
