Anita von Poser's Foodways and Empathy: Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, PDF

By Anita von Poser

ISBN-10: 0857459198

ISBN-13: 9780857459190

Through the sharing of foodstuff, humans think entitled to inquire into one another's lives and think of one another's states in terms of their foodways. This in-depth learn makes a speciality of the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River humans in an under-represented zone within the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, uncovering the conceptual convergence of neighborhood notions of relatedness, foodways, and empathy. In weaving jointly discussions approximately paramount values as handed on via delusion, the expression of emotions in way of life, and the physically adventure of social and actual environs, a life-world unfolds during which ethical, emotional, and embodied foodways give a contribution particularly to the construction of relationships. fascinated with distinctive tactics of "making kin," the booklet provides a different case to fresh debates approximately relatedness and empathy and sheds new mild onto the traditional anthropological subject matters of meals construction, sharing, and exchange.

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