Transactions in Taste: the Collaborative Lives of Everyday Bengali Food - Image 1

£133.40

Routledge Transactions in Taste: the Collaborative Lives of Everyday Bengali Food

Name: Transactions in Taste: the Collaborative Lives of Everyday Bengali Food
Brand: Routledge
Price: 133.4 GBP
Availability: InStock

Indian

Price History & Forecast

Last 15 days • 15 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 15 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £133 (15 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £133 - £133

Price levels: 1 different prices over 15 days

Description

In a radical departure from previous ethnographies of food, this book asks how and why food is pivotal to social relations and forms of identity that emerge as normal and not-normal. It does so by describing the production, consumption, distribution, and disposal of ‘normal Bengali food’ in middle-class households that employ cooks from poor classes, and in Bengali restaurants, in contemporary Calcutta (India) and Dhaka (Bangladesh). In a rare comparative foray into Bengali Hindu and Muslim food-ways on both sides of the border, the book includes addas (‘idle-talk’) and interviews with both men and women. It initiates a dialogue that links issues of agency, place, hospitality, and ownership with a new field that places food as an ‘artefact’ at the centre of its inquiry. It invites the reader throughout to approach food afresh, as the key that unlocks the complexities of what is mundane yet profound ― the everyday. The book thus analyses the constant and fraught negotiations that feed into definitions of normality, class and identity in the deeply intimate yet intensely public domain of food. Food transactions here provide a window into shifting configurations of trust, power, and conflict integral to social relationships, shaped by events such as the 1943–44 Bengal famine, the 1947 partition of India, and the 1971 Bangladesh War.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0415553741
Category: Books > Subjects > Food & Drink > National & International Cookery > Indian
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 06 October 2009
Listed Since: 24 June 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Transactions in Taste: the Collaborative Lives of Everyday Bengali Food

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

An Earthly Paradise: Early Modern Bengal - Routledge Books

Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

Eating Traditional Food: Politics, identity and practices (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment)

Routledge - Travel Culture, Travel Writing and Bengali Women

Popular Cinema in Bengal: Genre, Stars, Public Cultures (Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series)

Routledge: People-Party-Policy Interplay in India Politics

Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast

Routledge - On Modern Indian Sensibilities Book

Caste and Gender in Contemporary India: Power, Privilege and Politics

Routledge - Food Practices and Social Inequality Book

Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation

Food Parcels in International Migration: Intimate Connections (Anthropology, Change, and Development)

Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity: In Search of the Modern? (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

Rethinking the Local in Indian History: Perspectives from Southern Bengal

Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean

Food Identities at Home and on the Move: Explorations at the Intersection of Food, Belonging and Dwelling

Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage (Heritage, Culture and Identity)

Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage (Heritage, Culture and Identity)

Routledge - The Politics of Caste in West Bengal Book

Concubinage, Race and Law in Early Colonial Bengal: Bequeathing Intimacy, Servicing the Empire

South Asian Tissue Economies

The Ethnic Restaurateur

Farm to Fingers: The Culture and Politics of Food in Contemporary India

Gender, Nationalism, and Genocide in Bangladesh: Naristhan/Ladyland (Routledge Studies in South Asian History)