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

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

Regelson, Stanley
Hanchett, Suzanne L.

Paperback

General SociologyIndian & South Asian Cooking

Publisher Price: $39.00

ISBN13: 9798986876900
Publisher: Development Resources Press
Published: Feb 20 2023
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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