Cooking the Mongols/Feeding the Han: Dietary and ethnic intersections in Inner Mongolia

Inner Asia

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 205-230

  Franck, Billé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dairy products; Ethnicity; Food consumption; Han; Inner mongolia; Milk; Mongols

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; DIET; ETHNICITY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; MILK; MODERNIZATION;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 75449083267     PISSN: 14648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000000009793066523     Document Type: Article

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