Foodways and Empathy

Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea

AvAnita von Poser

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Del 4 i serien Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific

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Beskrivning

Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another's lives and ponder one another's states in relation to their foodways. This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, uncovering the conceptual convergence of local notions of relatedness, foodways, and empathy. In weaving together discussions about paramount values as passed on through myth, the expression of feelings in daily life, and the bodily experience of social and physical environs, a life-world unfolds in which moral, emotional, and embodied foodways contribute notably to the creation of relationships. Concerned with unique processes of "making kin," the book adds a distinct case to recent debates about relatedness and empathy and sheds new light onto the conventional anthropological themes of food production, sharing, and exchange.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-08-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:558 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9780857459190

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Anita von Poser was awarded a DPhil at the University of Heidelberg. As a postdoctoral fellow of the multidisciplinary Max Planck International Research Network on Aging, she was based at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale. She currently holds a teaching and research position at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University Berlin.

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"This is a very valuable work that greatly advances anthropology's understanding of empathy and its expression through sharing food. It provides a detailed ethnographic case study of these phenomena that is thoroughly grounded in the comparative and current theoretical anthropological literature on these topics." * Roger Lohmann, Trent University

Innehållsförteckning

List of Maps and Figures Acknowledgements Annotations to the Text Introduction Chapter 1. The Ethnographic Frame Chapter 2. The Sago Spirit's Legacy and Bosmun Sociality Chapter 3. Nzari's Journey and the Enactment of Life Cycle Events Chapter 4. Ropor's Belly and Emplaced Empathy Conclusion Glossary Appendix References Index