Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia' investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regi...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Leung, Ki Che 1953- (HerausgeberIn), Caldwell, Melissa L. 1969- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:	Food in Asia and the Pacific
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Diet > Asia Food habits > Asia Food consumption > Moral and ethical aspects > Asia Moral Ernährungsgewohnheit Asien Konferenzschrift > Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences > 2014
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Zusammenfassung:	Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia' investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes. The collection's focus on cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons across Asia brings into view a broad spectrum of modern Asia that extends from East Asia, Southeast Asia, to South Asia, as well as into global communities of Western knowledge, practice, and power outside Asia.0The first section, "Good Foods," focuses on how food norms and rules have been established in modern Asia. Ideas about good foods and good bodies shift at different moments, in some cases privileging local foods and knowledge systems, and in other cases privileging foreign foods and knowledge systems. The second section, "Bad Foods," focuses on what makes foods bad and even dangerous. Bad foods are not simply unpleasant or undesirable for aesthetic or sensory reasons, but they can hinder the stability and development of persons and societies. Bad foods are symbolically polluting, as in the case of foreign foods that threaten not only traditional foods, but also the stability and strength of the nation and its people. The third section, "Moral Foods," focuses on how themes of good versus bad are embedded in projects to make modern persons, subjects, and states, with specific attention to the ambiguities and malleability of foods and health. The malleability of moral foods provides unique opportunities for understanding Asian societies' dynamic position within larger global flows, connections, and disconnections
Beschreibung:	"The idea for this volume emerged from an international conference held in December 2014 at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences ..." - Acknowledgments Includes bibliographical references and index Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter
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ISBN:	9780824879570 9780824887636 0824887638
DOI:	10.1515/9780824879570