Uncertain Tastes Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya

Name: Uncertain Tastes Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya
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ISBN: 9780520257375

ISBN-10: 0520257375

ISBN-13: 9780520257375

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jon Holtzman

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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 D. 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 social maladies to these dietary changes, including selfishness and moral decay. Yet because the new…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/13/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Orientations



Memory, Ambivalence, and Food



Food as Food



Worlds of Food



The Alimentary Structures of Samburu Life



A Samburu Gastronomy



The Calabash behind the Calabash behind the Calabash



Histories of Eating



Mixed Like a Pot of Gray Food



In a Cup of Tea



Turbid Brews



Eating Shillings


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index