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Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity ed. by Nancy K. Stalker (review)

Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity ed. by Nancy K. Stalker (review) Review Section 271 Taken on its merits, this book is a tour de force, with an ambitious scope and complex analytical objectives. The different types, levels, defi nitions, theories, and categories of corruption and scandals, however, can be confus- ing to the reader, and hence the book does have a coherence problem. The authors’ overlay of historical and thematic analysis can also be confusing, with the same scandals discussed in different places in the book under dif- ferent headings. Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity. Ed- ited by Nancy K. Stalker. Oxford University Press, New York, 2018. xviii, 349 pages. $105.00, cloth; $31.95, paper. Reviewed by Samuel Hideo Yamashita Pomona College Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity is an important contribution to the English-language scholarship on Japanese food. As editor Nancy Stalker explains in her acknowledgments, she and her colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin organized a conference in 2014 to commemorate UNESCO’s addition of the term washoku to its List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, with funding from the Japan Founda- tion, the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, and the Mitsubishi Caterpillar Heavy Industries Endowment. Devouring Japan consists of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Japanese Studies Society for Japanese Studies

Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity ed. by Nancy K. Stalker (review)

Yamashita, Samuel Hideo
The Journal of Japanese Studies , Volume 46 (1) – Jan 28, 2020
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Review Section 271 Taken on its merits, this book is a tour de force, with an ambitious scope and complex analytical objectives. The different types, levels, defi nitions, theories, and categories of corruption and scandals, however, can be confus- ing to the reader, and hence the book does have a coherence problem. The authors’ overlay of historical and thematic analysis can also be confusing, with the same scandals discussed in different places in the book under dif- ferent headings. Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity. Ed- ited by Nancy K. Stalker. Oxford University Press, New York, 2018. xviii, 349 pages. $105.00, cloth; $31.95, paper. Reviewed by Samuel Hideo Yamashita Pomona College Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity is an important contribution to the English-language scholarship on Japanese food. As editor Nancy Stalker explains in her acknowledgments, she and her colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin organized a conference in 2014 to commemorate UNESCO’s addition of the term washoku to its List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, with funding from the Japan Founda- tion, the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, and the Mitsubishi Caterpillar Heavy Industries Endowment. Devouring Japan consists of

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