CULTURAL CONTESTATION IN RITUAL FOOD : AMERICAN THANKSGIVING AND JAVANESE SLAMETAN

Suryaningsih, Sukarni (2012) CULTURAL CONTESTATION IN RITUAL FOOD : AMERICAN THANKSGIVING AND JAVANESE SLAMETAN. International Seminar "Culture Across Perspective: Contestation Among Global, Natioinal and Local Cultures" . ISSN 978-602-8726-05-4

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Abstract

Cultural contestation is inevitable issue related to fundamental questions of collective identity. Localism, nationalism and globalism is being questioned as the globalized world enable culture experiences transformation and shifting which may endanger identity . This paper is going to explore how cultural contestation in defining identity also happens in food consumption. Ritual food of American Thanksgiving and Javanese Slametan witness that American and Javanese identity is fluid.

Item Type:Article
Subjects:C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization
Divisions:Faculty of Humanities > Department of English
ID Code:38579
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Deposited On:21 Feb 2013 15:03
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