Uncertain Tastes

Author : Jon Holtzman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520257368

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This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu reaction to the new foods is primarily negative--they are referred to disparagingly as "gray food” and "government food”--it is also deeply ambivalent. For example, the Samburu attribute a host of social maladies to these dietary changes, including selfishness and moral decay. Yet because the new foods save lives during famines, the same individuals also talk of the triumph of reason over an antiquated culture and speak enthusiastically of a better life where there is less struggle to find food. Through detailed analysis of a range of food-centered arenas, Uncertain Tastes argues that the experience of food itself--symbolic, sensuous, social, and material-is intrinsically characterized by multiple and frequently conflicting layers.

Author : Jon Holtzman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520944824

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Uncertain Tastes by Jon Holtzman Pdf

This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu reaction to the new foods is primarily negative—they are referred to disparagingly as "gray food" and "government food"—it is also deeply ambivalent. For example, the Samburu attribute a host of social maladies to these dietary changes, including selfishness and moral decay. Yet because the new foods save lives during famines, the same individuals also talk of the triumph of reason over an antiquated culture and speak enthusiastically of a better life where there is less struggle to find food. Through detailed analysis of a range of food-centered arenas, Uncertain Tastes argues that the experience of food itself—symbolic, sensuous, social, and material-is intrinsically characterized by multiple and frequently conflicting layers.

Author : Carole Counihan,Susanne Højlund
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350052697

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Making Taste Public by Carole Counihan,Susanne Højlund Pdf

Making Taste Public takes an ethnographic approach to show how social relations shape - and are shaped by - the taste of food. Recognizing that different cultures have different taste preferences and flavour principles embedded in cuisine, editors Carole Counihan and Susanne Højlund ask how these differences are generated. The editors have compiled 14 chapters to show how specific influences become a part of our sensorial apparatus and identity through shared experiences of making, eating, and talking about food. Using case studies from Asia, Europe and America, the book presents a theory of how taste is made public through everyday practices. The authors are exploring how place, production methods and cooking techniques create tastes. They discuss the criteria determining good and bad tastes, and how tastes and memories evolve over time. Subjects such as how values can be embedded in taste, and the role of taste education in food movements, homes, and schools are explored. The different chapters examine definitions and mobilizations of taste in different institutions, public places, and regions around the world to reveal ethnographic understandings of how people learn, experience, and share taste. With contributions spanning the Solomon Islands, Denmark, Japan, Canada, France, the USA, and Italy, Making Taste Public is a fascinating account of how our sense of taste is continuously shaped and re-shaped in relation to social and cultural context, societal and environmental premises. The book will interest anyone studying anthropology, sociology, food studies, sensory studies and human geography.

Author : Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350162730

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The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz Pdf

The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity examines the social, cultural, and political processes that shape the experience of taste. The book positions flavor as involving all the senses, and describes the multiple ways in which taste becomes tied to local, translocal, glocal, and cosmopolitan politics of identity. Global case studies are included from Japan, China, India, Belize, Chile, Guatemala, the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Spain. Chapters examine local responses to industrialized food and the heritage industry, and look at how professional culinary practice has become foundational for local identities. The book also discusses the unfolding construction of “local taste” in the context of sociocultural developments, and addresses how cultural political divides are created between meat consumption and vegetarianism, innovation and tradition, heritage and social class, popular food and authenticity, and street and restaurant food. In addition, contributors discuss how different food products-such as kimchi, quinoa, and Soylent-have entered the international market of industrial and heritage foods, connecting different places and shaping taste and political identities.

Author : Kelli C. Rudolph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317515401

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Taste and the Ancient Senses by Kelli C. Rudolph Pdf

Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies and to other modes of sensory experience? This volume, the first of its kind to explore the ancient sense of taste, draws on the literature, philosophy, history and archaeology of Greco-Roman antiquity to provide answers to these central questions. By surveying and probing the literary and material remains from the Archaic period to late antiquity, contributors investigate the cultural and intellectual development towards attitudes and theories about taste. These specially commissioned chapters also open a window onto ancient thinking about perception and the body. Importantly, these authors go beyond exploring the functional significance of taste to uncover its value and meaning in the actions, thoughts and words of the Greeks and Romans. Taste and the Ancient Senses presents a full range of interpretative approaches to the gustatory sense, and provides an indispensable resource for students and scholars of classical antiquity and sensory studies.

Author : Mordecai Cubitt Cooke,George Massee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Cryptogams
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106398050

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Grevillea by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke,George Massee Pdf

Author : Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Herefordshire (England)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106238876

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Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club by Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club Pdf

Author : C.L. Dews,Carolyn Leste Law
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781566392914

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This Fine Place So Far from Home by C.L. Dews,Carolyn Leste Law Pdf

These autobiographical and analytical essays by a diverse group of professors and graduate students from working-class families reveal an academic world in which "blue-collar work is invisible." Describing conflict and frustration, the contributors expose a divisive middle-class bias in the university setting. Many talk openly about how little they understood about the hierarchy and processes of higher education, while others explore how their experiences now affect their relationships with their own students. They all have in common the anguish of choosing to hide their working-class background, to keep the language of home out of the classroom and the ideas of school away from home. These startlingly personal stories highlight the fissure between a working-class upbringing and the more privileged values of the institution.

Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026177515

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The Echo Club, and Other Literary Diversions by Bayard Taylor Pdf

Author : Bálint András Varga
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9781580465939

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The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste by Bálint András Varga Pdf

Bálint András Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is crucial for any serious creative artist: How can one find courage to deal with the sometimes tyrannical expectations of the outside world? The result is an imaginary roundtable at which we encounter fresh, revealing, previously unpublished statements from such world-renowned composers as John Adams, Friedrich Cerha, George Crumb, Sofia Gubaïdulina, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giya Kancheli, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Libby Larsen, Robert Morris, and Wolfgang Rihm. Also represented are composers who are becoming more prominent with the passing years -- Chaya Czernowin, Pascal Dusapin, and Rebecca Saunders -- as well as conductor-composer Michael Gielen, festival director Nicholas Kenyon, and music critics Paul Griffiths and Arnold Whittall. In The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste, composers and other insightful individuals comment on choices made, traps avoided, unforeseen consequences, proud accomplishments, occasional regrets: the whole range of experiences central to artistic creativity. Bálint András Varga isthe acclaimed author of György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages; Three Questions for 65 Composers; and From Boulanger to Stockhausen: Interviews and a Memoir (all available from University of Rochester Press).

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521576024

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Kant and the Claims of Taste by Paul Guyer Pdf

The book offers a detailed account of Kant's views on judgments of taste, aesthetic pleasure, imagination and many other topics.

Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Parodies
ISBN : WISC:89099219800

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The Echo Club by Bayard Taylor Pdf

Author : Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567699336

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Life and Death by Francesca Stavrakopoulou Pdf

Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies explores some of the social, material, and ideological dynamics shaping life and death in both the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel and Judah. Analysing topics ranging from the bodily realities of gestation, subsistence, and death, and embodied performances of gender, power, and status, to the imagined realities of post-mortem and divine existence, the essays in this volume offer exciting new trajectories in our understanding of the ways in which embodiment played out in the societies in which the texts of the Hebrew Bible emerged.

Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600062471

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Diversions of the Echo Club by Bayard Taylor Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Cooking
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065120044

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Table Talk by Anonim Pdf