Eternal Food

Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists

AvR. S. Khare

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

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Beskrivning

The interdisciplinary approaches presented here investigate food in India and Sri Lanka for its wide ranging cultural meaning and uses. The authors examine food in religious and literary contexts, where saints, ritualists, poets, and the divine often provide grounds for a practically inexhaustible hermeneutics. The Eternal Food focuses on reflexive cultural expressions and personal experiences that food elicits in the region. Concerned with food as an "essence" and as an essential experience, the authors give special attention to Hindu saints for whom food, firmly grounded in moral ideals and practice, represents a cosmic divine principle at one level, and a most immediate and intimate material reality at another.In the cultural diversity of India, the authors work with several conceptual models and meanings of food. They demonstrate how it reflects common social understandings about social caste, the cure and prevention of ailments, its ability to alter moods and motivations, or affect innate personal dispositions, personal spiritual pursuits and attainments. In its sweep and depth, food presents a powerful cultural lens for seeing how practical, ritual, and spiritual spheres of life conjoin.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1992-09-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Hindu Studies
Antal sidor:290
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791410585

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R. S. Khare is Professor of Anthropology and Chairman of the International Commission on Anthropology of Food at the University of Virginia.

Recensioner i media

"This book brings together an interesting and 'palatable' variety of Indological approaches and areas. The opportunities to deepen and broaden one's knowledge, as an Indologist, are, therefore, considerable. The topic of food is undoubtedly important now and connects with a range of significant cultural semantic indicators relevant to the body and all that it represents in terms of lived experience and traditions." — Gail Hinich Sutherland, Louisiana State University

Innehållsförteckning

Note on Transliteration Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Food with Saints: An Aspect of Hindu GastrosemanticsR. S. Khare 2. You Are What You Eat: The Anomalous Status of Dog-Cookers in Hindu MythologyDavid Gordon White 3. Sharing the Divine Feast: Evolution of Food Metaphor in Marathi Sant PoetryVidyut Aklujkar 4. Mountain of Food, Mountain of Love: Ritual Inversion in the Annakuta Feast at Mount GovardhanPaul M. Toomey 5. Pancamirtam : God's Washings as FoodManuel Moreno 6. Food Essence and the Essence of ExperienceH. L. Seneviratne 7. Annambrahman: Cultural Models, Meanings, and Aesthetics of Hindu FoodR. S. Khare 8. Food for Thought: Toward an Anthology of Food ImagesA. K. Ramanujan Glossary Contributors Index