Eating beside Ourselves
<jats:p>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 eater...
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ftmit:oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/150977 2023-07-23T04:17:52+02:00 Eating beside Ourselves Thresholds of Foods and Bodies Paxson, Heather Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Anthropology 2023-02-03 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150977 en_US eng Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478024064 9781478093114 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150977 Paxson, Heather. 2023. "Eating beside Ourselves." Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62547 Book http://purl.org/eprint/type/Book 2023 ftmit 2023-07-03T17:59:26Z <jats:p>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.</jats:p> <jats:p>Contributors. Alex Blanchette, Deborah Heath, Hannah Landecker, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Amy Moran-Thomas, Heather Paxson, Harris Solomon, Emily Yates-Doerr, Wim Van Daele</jats:p> Book Arctic DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Arctic Hannah ENVELOPE(-60.613,-60.613,-62.654,-62.654) New Zealand Norway |
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<jats:p>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.</jats:p> <jats:p>Contributors. Alex Blanchette, Deborah Heath, Hannah Landecker, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Amy Moran-Thomas, Heather Paxson, Harris Solomon, Emily Yates-Doerr, Wim Van Daele</jats:p> |
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