Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative Lives of Everyday Bengali Food

ISBN-13: 9780415553742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 222 str.

Manpreet Janeja

Opis

The book aims to generate a new theoretical focus on the anthropology of food, everyday life and material culture by a comparative ethnography of culinary practices of Bengali Hindu and Muslim poor and middle classes in either side of the eastern border — Calcutta and Dhaka. It seeks to unravel social practices and relationships of ‘normality’, identities, conflicts of agency as well as perceived inequities in the cultural economies of food vis-à-vis production, consumption, exchange and ownership.

Spis treści

List of Photographs Preface and Acknowledgements Note on Language, Translation, and Transliteration of Bengali Words 1. Food as Agency: Introducing Normality 2. The Actants of a Normal Foodscape 3.  'Like Everyday’: Creating Normality 4. The Everyday Normal Sacred Kitchen 5. Of Seducing and Respectable, Hospitable and Stingy Foods: Subjectivities of Normal Food 6. Cha (tea), Gan (song), aar (and) Adda (‘idle’/’care-less’ talk): Making and Consuming Normal Food Identities 7. Normal Food and Ownership 8. Postprandial Ruminations Bibliography Index

O autorze

Manpreet K. Janeja is Eugénie Strong Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Girton College, University of Cambridge.