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My Umbilical Cord to Goa

Food, Colonialism and Transnational Goan Life Experiences

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ID5377974
AuthorsM V Rosales (0000-0001-6576-2039, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume20
Issue3-4
Pages233-256
Publication date2012-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFood and Foodways (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0740-9710 • E-ISSN: 1542-3484
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07409710.2012.715966
OpenAlexW2035707348
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited13

This article explores the domestic consumption practices of five Goan Catholic Brahmin families throughout their long migration experience in the twentieth century. It discusses the potentialities of an analysis anchored in ordinary domestic material culture and consumption in general, and in food in particular, for the discussion of their specific trajectories in Goa, Mozambique and Portugal. I argue that food preparation and consumption, along with other everyday practices, played a significant role in structuring relations with the context of origin. This central role consists of establishing a coherent link between present and past, as well as between the various locations inhabited, whilst displaying a distinctive habitus profoundly marked by colonialism and migration

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