16 avril 2013
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Annemarie Mol, « Bami goreng for Mrs. Klerks and other stories on food and culture », Presses des Mines, ID : 10.4000/books.pressesmines.765
In the Salle Saint-Jacques of the École des mines de Paris you would not want to present a paper in which culture figures as an explanatory term. Calmly but firmly the assembled members of the CSI would put you right. This notion is too big, it draws too much together, it is not sufficiently practical, material, situated – what have you. What is more, the fact that someone ‘belongs to culture X’ can never explain, say, the food she eats, as eating specific kinds of food is likely to mark what...