Adventures in Eating
Anthropological Experiences in Dining from Around the World
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2010
292 pages
978-1-60732-015-9 (ISBN)
Description
Anthropologists training to do fieldwork in far-off, unfamiliar places prepare for significant challenges with regard to language, customs, and other cultural differences. However, like other travelers to unknown places, they are often unprepared to deal with the most basic and necessary requirement: food. Although there are many books on the anthropology of food, Adventures in Eating is the first intended to prepare students for the uncomfortable dining situations they may encounter over the course of their careers.
Whether sago grubs, jungle rats, termites, or the pungent durian fruit are on the table, participating in the act of sharing food can establish relationships vital to anthropologists'' research practices and knowledge of their host cultures. Using their own experiences with unfamiliar-and sometimes unappealing-food practices and customs, the contributors explore such eating moments and how these moments can produce new understandings of culture and the meaning of food beyond the immediate experience of eating it. They also address how personal eating experiences and culinary dilemmas can shape the data and methodologies of the discipline.
The main readership of Adventures in Eating will be students in anthropology and other scholars, but the explosion of food media gives the book additional appeal for fans of No Reservations and Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel.
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Helen R. Haines | Clare A. Sammells
Adventures in Eating
Anthropological Experiences in Dining from Around the World
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Wold Map
- CHAPTER ONE The Importance of Food and Feasting around the World
- Methodologies, or What Food Can Tell Us
- Setting the Table
- Notes
- References
- SECTION I The Main Course
- CHAPTER TWO Boiled Eggs with Chicks Inside, or What Commensality Means
- Appetizer
- First Course: The Meanings of Commensality
- Second Course: Reflux and Reflexivity
- Third Course: Gustatory Distinctions and Ambivalence
- Fourth Course: Bland Yet Filling Food Connections
- DESSERT
- References
- CHAPTER THREE A Rat by Any Other Name
- Biology and History of Agouti PACA
- My First Experience with Gibnut
- It's All About Dinner
- The End of My Ignorance
- Notes
- References
- CHAPTER FOUR The Delicacy of Raising and Eating Guinea Pig
- Introduction: The Cuy
- First Encounters: Acceptance and Tolerance
- Post-Initiation: Raising the General State of the Cuy
- Conclusion: Hopes and Dreams of Cavia Porcellus
- Note
- References
- CHAPTER FIVE Termites Tell the Tale
- Adventures with Termites
- Termites are Good to Think
- Research Site and Methods
- Globalization of an Indigenous Food System
- From Abundance to Scarcity
- Globalization and Enjala (Hunger)
- Globalization and Social Change
- Epilogue: Becoming Musamia, or We Are What We Eat
- Notes
- References
- SECTION II Side Dishes and Accompaniments
- CHAPTER SIX Ode to a Chuño
- How to Plant a ChuÑo
- Making ChuÑo
- The Beginning of a Love Affair with a Not-Exactly Potato
- ChuÑo-Less Tourists
- Good to Eat
- Good to Think
- Good to Relate
- Touristic Cuisines
- Notes
- References
- CHAPTER SEVEN Durian
- Durian Facts
- Views on Durian
- Trying Durian
- Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER EIGHT MSG and Sugar
- Fieldwork Research in an Urban Jungle
- Emergence of Dominican Food Systems
- Dominican Food Practices in New York City
- MSG And Sugar
- Surviving the Field: To Confess or Not to Confess
- Eating in the Field and the Predicaments of Native Ethnography
- References
- SECTION III Table Manners and Other Rules to Eat By
- CHAPTER NINE Eating Incorrectly in Japan
- The Incident
- Relativism in Anthropology and in Life
- Why do the Japanese Still Eat Whale?
- Food and Identity
- Recent Developments
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- CHAPTER TEN No Heads, No Feet, No Monkeys, No Dogs
- Reference
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Buona Forchetta
- Note
- References
- CHAPTER TWELVE "No Thanks, I Don't Eat Meat"
- Argentina and Beef
- TucumÁn and Methods
- Beef Eating
- The First Asado
- Doing the Research as a Vegetarian
- Further Understanding the Beef
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Eating with the Blackfeet
- Background and History
- Blackfeet Foodways Today
- The Bidirectional Gaze
- Note
- References
- SECTION IV Beverages
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Drinking Ethiopia
- Ethiopia: The Land and the Food Resources
- A Comment on the Culturally Symbolic Significance of Food And Drink
- Injera: The Mainstay thin Pancake-Like Sourdough Bread
- Berbere: The Mainstay Sauce in Ethiopian Cuisine
- Journey into the Highlands
- Coffee Parties and Conversations
- Other Highland Beverages
- Tea
- Milk
- Beer
- T'ej
- Qatiqala
- Yismaw's Feast
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN You Are What You Drink in Honduras
- Drinking Contexts
- Drinking Language
- Drinking Identity
- Drinking Encounters
- Alcoholic Drink: A Social Lubricant
- References
- SECTION V The Last Course
- EPILOGUE Edibles and Ethnic Boundaries, Globalization and Guinea Pigs
- References
- Index
