The Resource Uncertain Tastes : Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya, (electronic resource)
Uncertain Tastes : Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya, (electronic resource)
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The item Uncertain Tastes : Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Massey University Library, University of New Zealand.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780520944824
- Label
- Uncertain Tastes : Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya
- Title
- Uncertain Tastes
- Title remainder
- Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya
- Subject
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- Food preferences -- Kenya | Samburu District
- Samburu District (Kenya) -- Social conditions
- Samburu District (Kenya) -- Economic conditions
- Samburu (African people) -- Social conditions
- Food habits -- Kenya | Samburu District
- Culture conflict -- Kenya | Samburu District
- Social change -- Kenya | Samburu District
- Food -- Symbolic aspects -- Kenya | Samburu District
- Samburu (African people) -- Domestic animals
- Samburu (African people) -- Food
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Holtzman, Jon
- Dewey number
- 641.30089/965
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Samburu (African people)
- Samburu (African people)
- Samburu (African people)
- Food habits
- Food preferences
- Food
- Culture conflict
- Social change
- Samburu District (Kenya)
- Samburu District (Kenya)
- Label
- Uncertain Tastes : Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya, (electronic resource)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- not applicable
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn609850084
- Extent
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520944824
- Note
- eBooks on EBSCOhost
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)609850084
- Label
- Uncertain Tastes : Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya, (electronic resource)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Color
- not applicable
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn609850084
- Extent
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520944824
- Note
- eBooks on EBSCOhost
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)609850084
Subject
- Culture conflict -- Kenya | Samburu District
- Food -- Symbolic aspects -- Kenya | Samburu District
- Food habits -- Kenya | Samburu District
- Food preferences -- Kenya | Samburu District
- Samburu (African people) -- Domestic animals
- Samburu (African people) -- Food
- Samburu (African people) -- Social conditions
- Samburu District (Kenya) -- Economic conditions
- Samburu District (Kenya) -- Social conditions
- Social change -- Kenya | Samburu District
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