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Uncertain Tastes : Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya.
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 m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | ACLS Fellows' Publications.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 socia |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520944824 0520944828 0520257367 9780520257368 0520257375 9780520257375 1282359959 9781282359956 9786612359958 6612359951 |