Format:
1 Online-Ressource (245 p.)
ISBN:
9781478093114
Content:
Eating beside Ourselves examines eating as a site of transfer and transformation across bodies and selves. The contributors show that by turning organic substance into food, acts of eating create interconnected food webs organized by relative conditions of edibility through which eaters may in turn become eaten. In case studies ranging from nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrial animal husbandry in the United States, biodynamic winemaking in Aotearoa New Zealand, and reindeer herding in Arctic Norway to the creation of taste sensation in pet food and the entanglement of sugar and diabetes in the Caribbean, the contributors explore how food and eating create thresholds for human and nonhuman relations. These thresholds mediate different conditions and states of being: between living and dying, between the edible and the inedible, and the relationship between living organisms and their surrounding environment. In this way, acts of eating and the process of metabolism partake in the making and unmaking of multispecies ontologies, taxonomies, and ecologies.Contributors. Alex Blanchette, Deborah Heath, Hannah Landecker, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Amy Moran-Thomas, Heather Paxson, Harris Solomon, Emily Yates-Doerr, Wim Van Daele
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Frontmatter
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contents
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foreword
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acknowledgments
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Introduction eating beside ourselves
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Chapter one Sweetness across Thresholds at the Edge of the Sea
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Chapter two The Food of Our Food medicated feed and the industrialization of metabolism
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Chapter three The Politics of Palatability hog viscera, pet food, and the trade in industrial sense impressions
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Chapter four Becoming Food edibility as threshold in arctic norway marianne
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Chapter five On Life Support
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Chapter six The Placenta an ethnographic account of feeding relations
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Chapter seven Between Sky and Earth biodynamic viticulture's slow science
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contributors
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index
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781478093114
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