Domesticating Imperialism: Curry and Cookbooks in Victorian England

Zlotnick, Susan

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“…Curry, the reductive moniker -'a king of misnomers' (Banerji 2007, 38) -has raised the ire of Indian chefs who have described it 'as degrading to India's great cuisine as the term "chop suey" was to China's' (Jaffrey 1975, 5). Concocted for the Victorian kitchen (see Narayan 1997;Zlotnick 1996), this all-in-one powder continues to stand in for the diversity of India's cuisine. The bloggers renew the mission to rectify these misconceptions by speaking back to the Orientalist representations of Indian food.…”

Section: Digital Domesticity and Diasporamentioning

confidence: 98%

Food blogs and the digital reimagination of South Asian diasporic publics

Hegde

2014

South Asian Diaspora

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Food blogs and the digital reimagination of South Asian diasporic publics

Hegde

2014

South Asian Diaspora

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“…Javakwartier thus appropriates and repurposes immigrant cultures in order to fit ethnocentric, stereotypical ideas about them and provide a sense of authenticity. In the case of Saeed's Curry House, this was achieved by conjuring an aura of Indian-ness through the use of Indian truck art typography and color set, the inclusion of the word "curry" in the shop's brand-with curry being itself the vehicle for the metonymical incorporation of India into the British empire (Zlotnick, 1996) and Western culture more generally-exotically offset by the Muslim name Saeed and combined with the use of English in the shop's name as itself a marker of globalized culture. Such reinscription of Pakistani culture within the British Raj is a violent gesture that elides the painful history of the partition of India.…”

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Food and White Multiculturalism: Racial Aesthetics of Commercial Gentrification in Amsterdam’s Javastraat

Fiore

Plate

2021

Space and Culture

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In this article, we use Hage’s (2000) critique of White multiculturalism’s orientalizing logic of ethnic enrichment as a lens to analyze the multicultural valorization through ethnic food of the Javastraat, the commercial artery of Amsterdam’s Indische Buurt district. Stemming from a larger ethnographic study of gentrification in the area, the article provides evidence of how racial aesthetics have served as the central guiding principle in the transformation of the neighborhood from a dark space of grime, crime, and decay to the current space of hipness, coolness, and global culture. While being celebrated as a living example of multicultural society in the inner city, we argue that the area embodies a multicultural reality in which White, middle-class residents, and visitors are the prime occupiers of space and aesthetic organizing principle of the neighborhood’s landscape.

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“…7. The relationship between diet and the domestication of imperialism in British India is actually quite complex (see Appadurai, 1988;Procida, 2003;Zlotnick, 1996). 8.…”

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Coming to Our Senses: Appreciating the Sensorial in Medical Anthropology

Nichter

2008

Transcult Psychiatry

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This article supports the call for the sensorially engaged anthropological study of healing modalities, popular health culture, dietary practices, drug foods and pharmaceuticals, and idioms of distress. Six concepts are of central importance to sensorial anthropology: embodiment, the mindful body, mimesis, local biology, somatic idioms of distress, and 'the work of culture'. Fieldwork in South and Southeast Asia and North America illustrates how cultural interpretations associate bodily sensations with passions (strong emotions) and anxiety states, and bodily communication about social relations. Lay interpretations of bodily sensations inform and are informed by local understanding of ethnophysiology, health, illness, and the way medicines act in the body. Bodily states are manipulated by the ingestion of substances ranging from drug foods (e.g., sources of caffeine, nicotine, dietary supplements) to pharmaceuticals that stimulate or suppress sensations concordant with cultural values, work demands, and health concerns. Social relations are articulated at the site of the body through somatic modes of attention that index bodily ways of knowing learned through socialization, bodily memories, and the ability to relate to how another is likely to be feeling in a particular context. Sensorial anthropology can contribute to the study of transformative healing and trajectories of healthcare seeking and patterns of referral in pluralistic healthcare arenas.

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Domesticating Imperialism: Curry and Cookbooks in Victorian England

Cited by 34 publications

References 3 publications

Food blogs and the digital reimagination of South Asian diasporic publics

Food blogs and the digital reimagination of South Asian diasporic publics

Food and White Multiculturalism: Racial Aesthetics of Commercial Gentrification in Amsterdam’s Javastraat

Coming to Our Senses: Appreciating the Sensorial in Medical Anthropology

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