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Learning ObjectivesAfter finishing this chapter, students should be able to understand:
- Understand the symbolic use of metaphor and metonym, and the two-sidedness of symbols.
- Understand the multiple uses of symbolism in food and eating cross-culturally.
- Understand how group identity is established through symbolism.
- Understand how to "read" the symbolism of domestic and public space.
- Understand the multiple ways in which the human body is symbolically used in culture-specific contexts of meaning.
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education