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Article: The colonial table: food, culture and Dutch identity in colonial Indonesia.
- Article from:
- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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In European as well as Asian histories, eating has functioned as a cultural activity that produces and reproduces social differentiations and reflects historical and cultural specificities. In colonial contexts, eating was one of the most profound and regular ways that Europeans might be forced to engage with (indeed, consume) the foreign cultures that they had transplanted themselves into. In the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia), the colonial table was not simply a site of exchange between European and Asian foodways, but one at which Dutch colonists reflected upon, developed and sometimes attempted to regulate what it meant to be European.
Food as an ...