Duruz, Jean
Eating together : food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore / Jean Duruz and Gaik Cheng Khoo - Petaling Jaya, Selangor : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2015 - xv, 262 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-253) and index.
Introduction : making rojak or eating together-in-difference? -- Kopitiam : in search of cosmopolitan spaces and meanings in Malaysia -- Spreading the toast of memory : from Hainanese kopitiams to boutique coffee shops in Singapore -- Mamak, anyone? : Tamil Muslim eateries in Malaysia -- Growing up transnational : travelling through Singapore's hawker centers -- Dumplings at Changi : Singapore's urban villages as spaces of exchange and re-invention -- The little nyonya and Peranakan Chinese identity : between commodification and cosmopolitanism -- Currying the nation : a song and dance about multiculturalism.
On analyses cultures of eating together and explores the national, ethnic, cosmopolitan and multicultural identity in Malaysia and Singapore.
In English
9789670630571
2015319383
Food habits--Social aspects--Malaysia
Food habits--Social aspects--Singapore
Malaysia--Social life and customs
Singapore--Social life and customs
394.1209595
Eating together : food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore / Jean Duruz and Gaik Cheng Khoo - Petaling Jaya, Selangor : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2015 - xv, 262 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-253) and index.
Introduction : making rojak or eating together-in-difference? -- Kopitiam : in search of cosmopolitan spaces and meanings in Malaysia -- Spreading the toast of memory : from Hainanese kopitiams to boutique coffee shops in Singapore -- Mamak, anyone? : Tamil Muslim eateries in Malaysia -- Growing up transnational : travelling through Singapore's hawker centers -- Dumplings at Changi : Singapore's urban villages as spaces of exchange and re-invention -- The little nyonya and Peranakan Chinese identity : between commodification and cosmopolitanism -- Currying the nation : a song and dance about multiculturalism.
On analyses cultures of eating together and explores the national, ethnic, cosmopolitan and multicultural identity in Malaysia and Singapore.
In English
9789670630571
2015319383
Food habits--Social aspects--Malaysia
Food habits--Social aspects--Singapore
Malaysia--Social life and customs
Singapore--Social life and customs
394.1209595