Eating Is an English Word

Annemarie Mol is Professor of Anthropology of the Body at the University of Amsterdam and author of Eating in Theory and The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice, both also published by Duke University Press.

“To eat. Comer. Lekker. Tasty. Schmecka. Gustar. Don’t reach for your dictionary to find equivalencies. Instead, read and digest this engaging book to appreciate how different wording points to different worlding around food and eating! Annemarie Mol and her multilingual collaborators challenge us all to confront the analytical limits of English’s hegemony as ‘our’ academic language.” - Heather Paxson, editor of (Eating beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and Bodies) “Eating Is an English Word offers a series of rich ethnographic contributions that challenge the implicit understanding of matters embedded in the English world: the body that eats; the enjoyment it brings; the practices and situations involved. At the same time, it illuminates significant assumptions related to linguistic and conceptual habits more broadly.” - Margaret J. Wiener, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Introduction. Contrasting Words / Annemarie Mol1. Language Trails: Lekker and Its Pleasures / Annemarie Mol2. Mixing Methods, Tasting Fingers: Notes on an Ethnographic Experiment / Anna Mann, Annemarie Mol, Priya Satalkar, Amalinda Savirani, Nasima Selim, Malini Sur, and Emily Yates-Doerr  413. Chupar Frutas in Salvador da Bahia: A Case of Practice-Specific Alterities / Mattijs van de Port and Annemarie Mol  614. Talking Pleasures, Writing Dialects: Outlining Research on Schmecka / Anna Mann and Annemarie Mol  775. JoaquÍn Les Gusta: On Gut-Level Love for a Lamb of the House / Rebeca IbÁÑez MartÍn and Annemarie Mol  946. Settling on an Okay Meal: An English Eater between Appeals and Apprehensions / John Law and Annemarie Mol  110Conclusion. Differences and Appreciations / Annemarie Mol  125Acknowledgments  139Notes  141Bibliography  167Contributors  183Index  187