Bangkok's Foodscape: Public Eating, Gender Relations, and Urban Change (Gisele Yasmeen) Portuguese grilled fish

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Bangkok's Foodscape: Public Eating, Gender Relations, and Urban Change (Gisele Yasmeen) Portuguese grilled fishThis book provides an overview and analysis of the habit of public eating in Thai society with specific attention paid to the case study of Bangkok where the phenomenon has been particularly widespread for several decades. Using the well established ethnographic approach of thick description, this contribution to the study of Thai and Southeast Asian foodways concentrates on the nexus between eating habits, the social construction of gender and