Kinship and Food in Southeast Asia Borneo The essays boldly offer insights

The essays boldly offer insights into the formation of Thai identity from the perspectives of history

Both historical and social anthropological approaches are used to explore ethnic and religious identities and integration in Southeast Asia

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At the heart of the study is the conjuncture between Malay ethnicity and Islamic faith

Kinship and Food in Southeast Asia Borneo The essays boldly offer insightsEdited by Monica Janowski and Fiona Kerlogue 2007. 304 pp, 15x23 cm Food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in Southeast Asian societies. For this reason, there is growing interest within anthropology in understanding how the production, processing and consumption of food is one important basis for the construction of ties of relatedness, so called kin ties. These are often based at least partly on shared