Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 248
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-4422-6642-1 • Hardback • May 2016 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
978-1-4422-6643-8 • eBook • May 2016 • $118.50 • (£92.00)
Casey Man Kong Lum, PhD, is Professor of Communication, William Paterson University. A member on the Board of Directors of the Urban Communication Foundation, Casey is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters in urban food cultures, media and culture, intercultural communication and diasporic studies. His book In Search of a Voice explores the role of karaoke singing in the social construction of identity. His authored/edited volume on The Media Ecology Tradition was the winner of the 2006 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics by the Media Ecology Association. He teaches graduate and undergraduate-level courses in media studies, food studies, and intercultural communication.
Marc de Ferrière le Vayer, PhD, is Professor of Modern History at Université François Rabelais de Tours, France. A scholar in food heritage studies well-known around the world and an author of numerous publications, Marc is the Chair Holder of the UNESCO Chair in the Safeguarding and Promotion of Intangible Cultural Food Heritage at the University of Tours since 2011.
1: At the Intersection of Urban Foodways, Communication, and Intangible Cultural Heritage: An Introduction
Casey Man Kong Lum and Marc de Ferrière le Vayer
2: Bacalhau–A Love Story: An Ethnographic Study of Portuguese Foodways
paula arvela
3: Kimchi Nation: Constructing Kimjang as an Intangible Korean Heritage
Chi-Hoon Kim
4: The Lebanese Bigarade: A Tree at the Heart of Urban Foodways
Aïda Kanafani-Zahar
5: Shark Town: Kesennuma’s Taste for Shark and the Challenge of a Tsunami
Jun Akamine
6: The Story in My Matzah Ball Soup: Food as Memory, Identity, and Culture in Contemporary Jewish Barcelona
Catherine Simone Gallin
7: Gastronomic Festivals and Celebrations on the Montenegrin Coast: Promoting Multicultural Heritage
through Traditional Foodways
Ivona Jovanovic´, Andiela Vitić-Ćetković, and Charles A. Baker-Clark
8: FIFA vs. As Baianas de Acarajé and the Politics of the Cultural Imaginary
Scott Alves Barton
9: Edible Heritage: Tradition, Health, and Ephemeral Consumption Spaces in Mexican Street Food
José Antonio Vázquez-Medina, Miriam Bertrán, and F. Xavier Medina
10: Botteghe Storiche: A Study of the Disappearance of Historic Food Shops and Its Role in the Transformation of Rome’s Urban Social Life
Sonia Massari, Elena T. Carbone, and Salem Paulos
11: Urban Melting Pot: Food Heritage in Yakutia
Isabelle Bianquis and Isabella Borissova
12: Epilogue: Urban Foodways as Communication and as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Lum, de Ferrière le Vayer, and their collaborating authors provide an exciting new perspective on foodways as dynamic forms of communication within and among contested urban spaces. Sophisticated yet accessible, diverse yet coherent, fresh but well grounded, this volume dives deep into the material, symbolic, and political complexities of food as cultural heritage.
— Amy E. Guptill, Associate Professor of Sociology, The College at Brockport – SUNY
This book about culinary cultural heritage contains a wealth of original research from regions that have been under-represented in previous collections on culinary culture. The introductory essay provides an original synthetic conceptualization of culinary culture as communication and ties this to the context of the globalizing city. Overall this book is a significant and original contribution to the growing literature on urban foodways with a particular focus on the social mechanisms and politics of urban culinary heritage.
— James Farrer, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, Sophia University
This book identifies and explores issues crucial to understanding how food is being used today to represent identity and heritage. Using ethnographic studies from urban contexts around the world, it sheds light on the implications of recognizing food’s potential for such communication and offers a glimpse of the diversity of responses by actual communities and individuals to this attention to food. An excellent introduction to the ideas and challenges of approaching food as communicative medium and intangible heritage!
— Lucy M. Long, PhD, Director, Center for Food and Culture, Bowling Green, OH