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Author Holtzman, Jon.

Title Uncertain Tastes : Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages)
Series ACLS Fellows' Publications
Contents Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1. ORIENTATIONS; 1. Memory, Ambivalence, and Food; 2. Food as Food; PART 2. WORLDS OF FOOD; 3. The Alimentary Structures of Samburu Life; 4. A Samburu Gastronomy; 5. The Calabash behind the Calabash behind the Calabash; PART 3. HISTORIES OF EATING; 6. Mixed Like a Pot of Gray Food; 7. In a Cup of Tea; 8. Turbid Brews; 9. Eating Shilings; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu reaction to the new foods is primarily negative-they are referred to disparagingly as "gray food" and "government food"--It is also deeply ambivalent. For example, the Samburu attribute a host of socia
Analysis african culture
agricultural products
agriculture
anthropology
basic diet
blood
cattle
cultural studies
eating
ethnography
famines
food
gastronomy
government food
gray food
kenya
kenyan culture
loikop
lokop
meat
milk
moral decay
nilotic people
north central kenya
northern kenya
pastoralists
samburu cattle herders
samburu culture
samburu material life
samburu social life
samburu tribe
samburu
selfishness
semi nomadic
struggle for food
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Samburu (African people) -- Food
Samburu (African people) -- Domestic animals
Samburu (African people) -- Social conditions
Food habits -- Kenya -- Samburu District
Food preferences -- Kenya -- Samburu District
Food -- Symbolic aspects -- Kenya -- Samburu District
Culture conflict -- Kenya -- Samburu District
Social change -- Kenya -- Samburu District
COOKING -- General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Food Science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Culture conflict
Economic history
Food habits
Food preferences
Food -- Symbolic aspects
Samburu (African people) -- Social conditions
Social change
Social conditions
SUBJECT Samburu District (Kenya) -- Social conditions
Samburu District (Kenya) -- Economic conditions
Subject Kenya -- Samburu District
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009003368
ISBN 9780520944824
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