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Cooking the Mongols/Feeding the Han: Dietary and Ethnic Intersections in Inner Mongolia

Cooking the Mongols/Feeding the Han: Dietary and Ethnic Intersections in Inner Mongolia <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the changing practices and perceptions of the Han residing in Inner Mongolia. Arguing that studies of Inner Mongolia all too frequently focus exclusively on the Mongols, and that the few Han appearing in them tend to be portrayed as agents of modernization and acculturation, the article seeks to challenge this limiting framework and to propose a more integrative approach. Taking dietary practices as its focus, the article suggests that the consumption patterns of foods traditionally marked as 'ethnic' do not neatly follow ethnic boundaries, and that limiting ethnographies of the region to the Mongols in fact obscures and conceals the numerous trends that cut across ethnic lines.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Inner Asia Brill

Cooking the Mongols/Feeding the Han: Dietary and Ethnic Intersections in Inner Mongolia

Inner Asia , Volume 11 (2): 205 – Jan 1, 2009

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1464-8172
eISSN
2210-5018
DOI
10.1163/000000009793066523
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the changing practices and perceptions of the Han residing in Inner Mongolia. Arguing that studies of Inner Mongolia all too frequently focus exclusively on the Mongols, and that the few Han appearing in them tend to be portrayed as agents of modernization and acculturation, the article seeks to challenge this limiting framework and to propose a more integrative approach. Taking dietary practices as its focus, the article suggests that the consumption patterns of foods traditionally marked as 'ethnic' do not neatly follow ethnic boundaries, and that limiting ethnographies of the region to the Mongols in fact obscures and conceals the numerous trends that cut across ethnic lines.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

Journal

Inner AsiaBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2009

Keywords: INNER MONGOLIA; DAIRY PRODUCTS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HAN; ETHNICITY; MILK; MONGOLS

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