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Thursday | 12:00 PM | Food, Ethnicity and Cultural Identity Staging and Performing Indigenousness through Taiwanese Indigenous Restaurants and Food
Joyce Yeh. Dong Hwa University Taiwan, Sociology This research takes an inter-disciplinary approach to examine complex interactions between food and ethnicity. Drawing upon participant observation of indigenous restaurants in Hualien in the context of tourism practices, and in-depth interviews with the indigenous restaurants owners, I view food cultures in their wider social, political and economic contexts. I focus on the socio-cultural dimensions of ethnic restaurants as cultural landscapes and valuable ethnic markers. I explore indigenous restaurants and food as performances of ethnicity that are staged, constructed, and contested. This research also explores the role of food and ethnic restaurants as sites of cross-cultural encounters in which a sense of indigenousness matters. I investigate indigenous restaurants and food as sites in which cultural displays help to construct identity, and examine their implications for this sense of indigenousness. In particular, I argue that foodways are a powerful tool for indigenous people to take back their rights of cultural interpretation and express who they are in a globalized world. Give the recent popularity of indigenous cuisines in Taiwan, they are also a way to make indigenous ethnicity visible in mainstream culture. Address Institut für Sinologie Raum 208 Akademiestraße 4-8 69117 Heidelberg Organizer Institut für Sinologie Homepage Organizer www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie Contact Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Taiwan Lecture Series': Wednesday 30th May 2018, 06:00 PM The Interaction Between the Indigenous Music and the Media in Contemporary Taiwan Lin Guo-Ting. Westminster, London, Media Studies Thursday 07th June 2018, 12:00 PM Masked Dolls and Wedding in Autumn Shih Chiung-Yu Thursday 05th July 2018, 12:00 PM Food, Ethnicity and Cultural Identity Joyce Yeh. Dong Hwa University Taiwan, Sociology Thursday 12th July 2018, 08:00 PM Indigenous Cultural Identities and Practices in Higher Education Tien-tai Wu, Dong Hwa University Taiwan, Ethnic Relations and Cultures Tuesday 17th July 2018, 05:00 PM Kevin Lee |