Food, Community, and the Spirit World: An Indian Village Study - Softcover

Regelson, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798986876900

Verlag: Development Resources Press, 2023

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This is a detailed ethnographic study of food beliefs and practices in a rural community of Hassan District, Karnataka State (formerly Mysore), India. The author is an anthropological linguist who resided in the locality for almost two years in 1966-67. He provides the reader with an unusually detailed view of the intersections of language, food, and social relationships. Food is viewed as an important structuring aspect of the Hindu world view, a way that people symbolically represent and reproduce their own identities, gender relationships, and the differences among local castes and sub-castes. The roles of foods and food exchange in weddings, ancestor ceremonies, and other family ceremonies is explored. The area visited no longer exists, having been submerged by a dam project; but the reader has an opportunity to probe deeply into the life of a community as it was fifty years ago. Includes Bibliography, Index, and numerous illustrations.

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Stanley Regelson is an anthropological linguist who did ethnographic fieldwork in Karnataka State, India, in 1966-67. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He taught at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and Lehman College, City University of New York.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Development Resources Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798986876900
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
• Herausgeber: Hanchett Suzanne L.
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