1st Edition
Transactions in Taste The Collaborative Lives of Everyday Bengali Food
By Manpreet Janeja
Copyright 2010
222 Pages
by
Routledge India
222 Pages
by
Routledge India
222 Pages
by
Routledge India
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In a radical departure from previous ethnographies of food, this book asks how and why food is pivotal to social relations and forms of identity that emerge as normal and not-normal. It does so by describing the production, consumption, distribution, and disposal of ‘normal Bengali food’ in middle-class households that employ cooks from poor classes, and in Bengali restaurants, in contemporary... Read more
List of Photographs Preface and Acknowledgements Note on Language, Translation, and Transliteration of Bengali Words 1. Food as Agency: Introducing Normality 2. The Actants of a Normal Foodscape 3. 'Like Everyday’: Creating Normality 4. The Everyday Normal Sacred Kitchen 5. Of Seducing and Respectable, Hospitable and Stingy Foods: Subjectivities of Normal Food 6. Cha (tea), Gan (song), aar (and) Adda (‘idle’/’care-less’ talk): Making and Consuming Normal Food Identities 7. Normal Food and Ownership 8. Postprandial Ruminations Bibliography Index
Biography
Manpreet K. Janeja is Eugénie Strong Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Girton College, University of Cambridge.
