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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/16030| Title: | Feeding Japan |
| Other Titles: | The Cultural and Political Issues of Dependency and Risk |
| Authors: | Andreas, Niehaus Tine, Walravens Tine Walravens |
| Keywords: | The Cultural and Political Issues of Dependency and Risk |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Description: | As many of the chapters in this volume will show, the construction, reconstruction, assertion and promotion of a national cuisine in Japan often reach beyond the aims of tourism and trade and are easily applied as a soft power instrument in the hands of those fostering nationalism. National and cultural identity is reinforced and reiterated by emotionally binding the nation and its food culture on a historical and cultural, as well as political and commercial level. Long before the UNESCO list came into existence, the narrative of a ‘pure’, natural, authentic and timeless cuisine successfully shaped a Japanese national and cultural identity, which centred on the ideas of homogeneity and uniqueness. As a commodity, food thus plays a significant role in national ‘imagined communities |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/16030 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-319-50553-4 |
| Appears in Collections: | Archeology and Heritage Management |
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