Katarzyna J. Cwiertka
Autor de Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity
Sobre El Autor
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is Chair and Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University, and the author of Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in Twentieth-century Korea (Reaktion, 2012).
Obras de Katarzyna J. Cwiertka
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Miembros
- 57
- Popularidad
- #287,973
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 19
- Idiomas
- 1
Esoteric and academic, this monograph is not a casual read or end-table book. It's what good scholarly writing should be: a well-organized and supported, synthetic analysis of its topic presented in the voice of social history rich with cultural anthropology. In this case, the topic is how Japanese culture as it is understood is a creation of the last 150 years, and Japanese cuisine has been both developed alongside that and directly linked to the cultural construction. From playing catch-up with the industrial West in the wake of the Meiji Restoration to military mobilization to reconstruction after the devastation of WWII, it's deeply interesting to see how a single Japanese identity was inculcated by a series of administrations into regionally-distinct (even Balkanized) populations. This book is a fine learning experience and a great resource for primary sources.… (más)