Faculty Advisor

Sam Kigar

Area of Study

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Publication Date

Summer 2022

Abstract

Moroccan foodways provide a view into the ways that food and identity interact, showcasing the agency over one's cultural identity, or lack there of, for the people who make it. Understandings of self are inherently impacted by projected notions of cultural identity placed upon communities. Authenticity discourse subjects understandings of cultures to the liminal space between barbarism and modernity. Through colonial ideas of linear time, these notions freeze cultures in time, forcing ideas of stagnant identity on a peoples.

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Agricola

Publisher

University of Puget Sound

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