英文摘要 |
At the end of 2013, the Japanese government successfully made “Washoku, the Japanese traditional dietary cultures” inscribed on the UNESCO’s representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity. This event aroused extensive criticisms from both inside and outside of Japan. In this paper, I reflexively review the critical comments on the heritagization of Washoku on the one hand, and explore the pending questions left unsolved in the related debates on the other. Taking the perspective of what Christoph Brumann termed “heritage agnosticism,” this paper aims at contributing to an anthropological understanding of the foods and dietary culture in Japan. |