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The Shaping of Dabbawala Relations

Bibliographic Data

ID20076023
AuthorsSara Roncaglia (corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages87-118
Publication date2013-07-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueFeeding the City (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOpen Book Publishers (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11647/obp.0031.03
OpenAlexW2169288460
ISBN9781909254008
LanguageEN
References cited51

Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas distribute 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes across the city. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers, this co-operative provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world. This book is an ethnographic study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai’s dabbawalas. Sara Roncaglia explains how they cater to the dietary requirements of a diverse and increasingly global city, where food preparation and consumption is pervaded with religious and cultural significance. Developing the idea of ‘gastrosemantics’, Roncaglia’s study helps us to rethink our relationship to food at a local and global level

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