Research Catalog

Title

Eating together : food, space, and identity in Malaysia and Singapore / Jean Duruz and Gaik Cheng Khoo.

Author

Duruz, Jean

Publication

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

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Additional Authors

Khoo, Gaik Cheng, 1969-

Description

xv, 262 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Analyses cultures of eating together in Malaysia and Singapore. It explores everyday spaces, such as street stalls, hawker centers, and coffee shops. Reflecting on these as sites for people's "different" culinary exchanges, the book captures resonances of national, ethnic, cosmopolitan and multicultural identity"--

Subjects

• Malaysia
• Sozialer Kontakt
• Food habits > Social aspects > Singapore
• Brauchtum
• Mat- och dryckesseder > sociala aspekter
• Matvanor
• Gesellschaftsleben
• Manners and customs
• Matkultur
• Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
• Essgewohnheit
• Malaya
• Singapore > Social life and customs
• Food habits > Social aspects > Malaysia
• Malaysia > Social life and customs
• Identität
• Ess- und Trinksitte
• Singapur

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9781442227408
• 1442227400
• 9781442227415 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014030099

OCLC

• ocn884808935
• 884808935
• SCSB-5853317

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries