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I have discussed some of the ideas presented here in detail in “Serving Ambiguity: Class and Classification in Thai Food at Home and Abroad,” in Kwang Ok Kim and Ok Pyo Moon, eds., Tasteful Trends: Identity, Power and Mobility of East Asian Food (Oxford: Berghahn, forthcoming).
19 gru 2022 · In Thailand, food forms a central part of any social occasion, and it often becomes the social occasion in itself or a reason to celebrate. This is partly due to the friendly, social nature of Thai people, but also because of the way in which food is ordered, served, and eaten.
1 maj 2002 · This article provides analytical components of Thai culture: worldviews, value systems, symbolic representation , and social organization.
1 cze 2020 · In this paper, we shed light on the many ways that food and food practices are important in the creation and maintenance of social identities in multicultural contexts, and that the preservation of these identities by individuals provides insight into the value placed on traditional food practices.
13 paź 2022 · Thai food and Thai cuisine from the past to the present are distinctive in their charms and characters. The cuisine is a proud heritage of the Thai people that they believe is second to none, and it has been handed down through generations.
The sociology of food and eating has recently re-emerged as an issue, not only within health sociology where concerns with healthy eating have come to the fore, but also in relation to emerging food markets, identity and food consumption, a renewed interest in food governance and diminishing trust in the food supply (McMillan and Coveney, 2010).
Thailand claims never to have been colonized, yet the country often embraces Western-derived cultural and political practices and historically used these practices as part of a sustained campaign to present itself as siwilai (civilized) and thereby to ward off self-justifying invasion by the “civilizing” European powers.3 Thai food is ...
