Farming, Cooking and Eating Practices in the Central China Highland: How Hezha Foods Function to Establish Ethnic Identity
Author:   Xu Wu
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
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9780773413733


Pages:   348
Publication Date:   October 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Xu Wu
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773413733


ISBN 10:   0773413731
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   October 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Foreword: Prof. Nicholas Tapp; Introduction; 1. Hezha Restaurants; 2. The Agroecosystem Transition; 3. A Set of Basic Foods; 4. The ""Earth Barn"" of Enshi People; 5. Food Rules; 6. Festival Foodways; 7. Different and Yet Alike; Bibliography; Appendix 1: Stories; Appendix 2: Calendars; Appendix 3: Wild Plants in Enshi Food Culture; Appendix 4: Lineage Identity and Foodways; Index; List of Measurement-units; Historical Periods; Maps: Enshi Prefecture."

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This work is a major contribution to our understandings of ethnicity in China, and also to the field of botanical ethnoecology. (Prof. Nicholas Tapp The Australian National University) The book is an invaluable record of shifting, blending culture on an internal mountain frontier. (Prof. E. N. Anderson University of California, Riverside)


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