Uncertain Tastes : Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya.

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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 m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holtzman, Jon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Colección:ACLS Fellows' Publications.
Temas:
Samburu (African people) > Food.
Samburu (African people) > Domestic animals.
Samburu (African people) > Social conditions.
Food habits > Kenya > Samburu District.
Food preferences > Kenya > Samburu District.
Food > Symbolic aspects > Kenya > Samburu District.
Culture conflict > Kenya > Samburu District.
Social change > Kenya > Samburu District.
Samburu (Peuple d'Afrique) > Alimentation.
Samburu (Peuple d'Afrique) > Animaux domestiques.
Samburu (Peuple d'Afrique) > Conditions sociales.
Habitudes alimentaires > Kenya > Samburu (District)
Préférences alimentaires > Kenya > Samburu (District)
Aliments > Aspect symbolique > Kenya > Samburu (District)
Conflit culturel > Kenya > Samburu (District)
COOKING > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Food Science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Culture conflict
Economic history
Food habits
Food preferences
Food > Symbolic aspects
Samburu (African people) > Social conditions
Social change
Social conditions
Samburu District (Kenya) > Social conditions.
Samburu District (Kenya) > Economic conditions.
Samburu (Kenya : District) > Conditions sociales.
Samburu (Kenya : District) > Conditions économiques.
Kenya > Samburu District
african culture.
agricultural products.
agriculture.
anthropology.
basic diet.
blood.
cattle.
cultural studies.
eating.
ethnography.
famines.
food.
gastronomy.
government food.
gray food.
kenya.
kenyan culture.
loikop.
lokop.
meat.
milk.
moral decay.
nilotic people.
north central kenya.
northern kenya.
pastoralists.
samburu cattle herders.
samburu culture.
samburu material life.
samburu social life.
samburu tribe.
samburu.
selfishness.
semi nomadic.
struggle for food.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1. ORIENTATIONS; 1. Memory, Ambivalence, and Food; 2. Food as Food; PART 2. WORLDS OF FOOD; 3. The Alimentary Structures of Samburu Life; 4. A Samburu Gastronomy; 5. The Calabash behind the Calabash behind the Calabash; PART 3. HISTORIES OF EATING; 6. Mixed Like a Pot of Gray Food; 7. In a Cup of Tea; 8. Turbid Brews; 9. Eating Shilings; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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