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- Title
"Localizing the 'Ethnic:' Balut-Eating Contests and Identity Performance among Filipino Americans".
- Authors
Magat, Margaret
- Abstract
A half-century ago, Dan Ben-Amos decried the incongruity between what he called localized "ethnic genres" and analytical categories constructed by scholars. He called attention to native cultural expressions in their context. I suggest that balut-eating contests cannot be categorized simply with the analytical category of a festival game or a competitive-eating contest. Instead, it should be seen as a localized genre which communicates Filipino Americans' experiences and opposes the denigration of their cultural practices.
- Subjects
FILIPINO Americans; BEN-Amos, Dan; ETHNICITY; COMPETITIVE eating
- Publication
Western Folklore, 2020, Vol 79, Issue 1, p105
- ISSN
0043-373X
- Publication type
Article