TY - BOOK AU - Haines,Helen R. AU - Sammells,Clare A. TI - Adventures in Eating: Anthropological Experiences in Dining from Around the World SN - 9781607320159 AV - GT2850 U1 - 394.12 PY - 2010/// CY - Chicago PB - University Press of Colorado KW - Food habits KW - Food preferences KW - Dinners and dining KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Wold Map -- CHAPTER ONE The Importance of Food and Feasting around the World -- Methodologies, or What Food Can Tell Us -- Setting the Table -- Notes -- References -- SECTION I The Main Course -- CHAPTER TWO Boiled Eggs with Chicks Inside, or What Commensality Means -- Appetizer -- First Course: The Meanings of Commensality -- Second Course: Reflux and Reflexivity -- Third Course: Gustatory Distinctions and Ambivalence -- Fourth Course: Bland Yet Filling Food Connections -- DESSERT -- References -- CHAPTER THREE A Rat by Any Other Name -- Biology and History of Agouti PACA -- My First Experience with Gibnut -- It's All About Dinner -- The End of My Ignorance -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER FOUR The Delicacy of Raising and Eating Guinea Pig -- Introduction: The Cuy -- First Encounters: Acceptance and Tolerance -- Post-Initiation: Raising the General State of the Cuy -- Conclusion: Hopes and Dreams of Cavia Porcellus -- Note -- References -- CHAPTER FIVE Termites Tell the Tale -- Adventures with Termites -- Termites are Good to Think -- Research Site and Methods -- Globalization of an Indigenous Food System -- From Abundance to Scarcity -- Globalization and Enjala (Hunger) -- Globalization and Social Change -- Epilogue: Becoming Musamia, or We Are What We Eat -- Notes -- References -- SECTION II Side Dishes and Accompaniments -- CHAPTER SIX Ode to a Chuño -- How to Plant a ChuÑo -- Making ChuÑo -- The Beginning of a Love Affair with a Not-Exactly Potato -- ChuÑo-Less Tourists -- Good to Eat -- Good to Think -- Good to Relate -- Touristic Cuisines -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER SEVEN Durian -- Durian Facts -- Views on Durian -- Trying Durian -- Conclusion -- References -- CHAPTER EIGHT MSG and Sugar -- Fieldwork Research in an Urban Jungle; Emergence of Dominican Food Systems -- Dominican Food Practices in New York City -- MSG And Sugar -- Surviving the Field: To Confess or Not to Confess -- Eating in the Field and the Predicaments of Native Ethnography -- References -- SECTION III Table Manners and Other Rules to Eat By -- CHAPTER NINE Eating Incorrectly in Japan -- The Incident -- Relativism in Anthropology and in Life -- Why do the Japanese Still Eat Whale? -- Food and Identity -- Recent Developments -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER TEN No Heads, No Feet, No Monkeys, No Dogs -- Reference -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Buona Forchetta -- Note -- References -- CHAPTER TWELVE "No Thanks, I Don't Eat Meat" -- Argentina and Beef -- TucumÁn and Methods -- Beef Eating -- The First Asado -- Doing the Research as a Vegetarian -- Further Understanding the Beef -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Eating with the Blackfeet -- Background and History -- Blackfeet Foodways Today -- The Bidirectional Gaze -- Note -- References -- SECTION IV Beverages -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Drinking Ethiopia -- Ethiopia: The Land and the Food Resources -- A Comment on the Culturally Symbolic Significance of Food And Drink -- Injera: The Mainstay thin Pancake-Like Sourdough Bread -- Berbere: The Mainstay Sauce in Ethiopian Cuisine -- Journey into the Highlands -- Coffee Parties and Conversations -- Other Highland Beverages -- Tea -- Milk -- Beer -- T'ej -- Qatiqala -- Yismaw's Feast -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN You Are What You Drink in Honduras -- Drinking Contexts -- Drinking Language -- Drinking Identity -- Drinking Encounters -- Alcoholic Drink: A Social Lubricant -- References -- SECTION V The Last Course -- EPILOGUE Edibles and Ethnic Boundaries, Globalization and Guinea Pigs -- References -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3039730 ER -