Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 288 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004410633
Series Statement:
Inner Asia book series volume 11
Uniform Title:
L'appel du bonheur
Content:
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Transcription of Mongolian Terms -- Prologue -- Ordinary Food Practices: Restricted Sharing -- The Space -- The Fundamental Pattern of the Meal -- From Animal to Meat Product -- Basic Culinary Techniques -- Cooking Modes -- Distribution and Consumption of Meals -- Food Sharing and Hospitality -- Extra-Ordinary Food Practices: Extended Sharing -- Extended Food Sharing -- The Human Soul -- Feast Food Practices—Birth -- Reverse of Feast Food Practices—Death -- Extended or Generalized Food Sharing and Maintenance of Social Order -- Renewal: Closing and Opening Foods, Bodies and Social Relations -- Epilogue -- Back Matter -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.
Content:
For Mongols, sharing food is more than just eating meals. Through a process of “opening” and “closing”, on a daily basis or at events, in the family circle or with visitors, sharing food guarantees the proper order of social relations. It also ensures the course of the seasons and the cycle of human life. Through food sharing, humans thus invite happiness to their families and herds. Sandrine Ruhlmann has lived long months, since 2000, in the Mongolian steppe and in the city. She describes and analyzes in detail the contemporary food system and recognizes intertwined ideas and values inherited from shamanism, Buddhism and communist ideology. Through meat-on-the-bone, creamy milk skin, dumplings or sole-shaped cakes, she highlights a whole way of thinking and living
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004409651
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ruhlmann, Sandrine, 1977 - Inviting happiness Leiden : Brill, 2019 ISBN 9789004409651
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004410633
URL:
https://brill.com/abstract/title/54850
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