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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454816303321

Autore

Holtzman Jon

Titolo

Uncertain tastes [[electronic resource] ] : memory, ambivalence, and the politics of eating in Samburu, northern Kenya / / Jon Holtzman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-35995-9

9786612359958

0-520-94482-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

641.30089/965

Soggetti

Samburu (African people) - Food

Samburu (African people) - Domestic animals

Samburu (African people) - Social conditions

Food habits - Kenya - Samburu District

Food preferences - Kenya - Samburu District

Food - Symbolic aspects - Kenya - Samburu District

Culture conflict - Kenya - Samburu District

Social change - Kenya - Samburu District

Electronic books.

Samburu District (Kenya) Social conditions

Samburu District (Kenya) Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Orientations -- Part 2. Worlds of Food -- Part 3. Histories of Eating -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 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 foods save lives during famines, the same individuals also talk of the triumph of reason over an antiquated culture and speak enthusiastically of a better life where there is less struggle to find food. Through detailed analysis of a range of food-centered arenas, Uncertain Tastes argues that the experience of food itself-symbolic, sensuous, social, and material-is intrinsically characterized by multiple and frequently conflicting layers.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779508903321

Titolo

Basal ganglia and thalamus [[electronic resource] ] : their role in cognition and behavior / / Rita Moretti, Paola Toree, and Rodolofo M.  Antonello, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Biomedical Books, c2009

ISBN

1-61761-574-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MorettiRita

TorrePaola, MD.

AntonelloRodolfo M

Disciplina

612.8/25

Soggetti

Basal ganglia

Thalamus

Cognitive neuroscience

Neuropsychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-155) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""BASAL GANGLIA AND THALAMUS:THEIR ROLE IN COGNITIONAND BEHAVIOR""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Anatomy of Basal Gangliaand Thalamus""; ""Regio Superior""; ""Super-Regio Medioposterior""; ""Regio Medialis""; ""Regio Posterior""; ""Super- Regio Basalis""; ""Regio Basalis""; ""Super-Regio Inferolateralis""; ""Regio



Geniculata""; ""Regio Lateralis""; ""Subregio Arcuata""; ""Anatomy of White Matter""; ""Basal Ganglia Region: Surgical andAnatomical Consideration""; ""Vascularisation of the “Block�""; ""Pathology and Clinic of Vascular Lesion: TheNeurosurgery Perspective""

""Deep Nuclei and Neoplasm Behaviour""""Surgical Consideration""; ""Physiology of Basal Ganglia andThalamus Circuits""; ""How are Basal Ganglia and ThalamusRelated to Cognition and Behaviour?""; ""Behavioural Conditioning Exerted byBasal Ganglia""; ""Apathy and Basal Ganglia""; ""Parkinson�s Disease as a Model of BasalGanglia Disruption""; ""Deep Brain Stimulation of theSubthalamus: NeuropsychologicalEffects""; ""Liver Diseases and Basal Ganglia""; ""Basal Ganglia and Language""; ""Basal Ganglia and Polylinguism""; ""Cortical or Subcortical Dementia:A Neuropsychological Comparison""

""The Thalamus: Its Role in Cognitionand Behaviour""""The Thalamus and the Clinical Reality""; ""Imaging of Basal Ganglia""; ""Degenerative Disorders""; ""Parkinson�s Disease""; ""Infectious Disease""; ""Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease""; ""Metabolic- Degenerative Inherited Disorders""; ""Wilson Disease""; ""Leigh Syndrome""; ""Toxic and Metabolic Acquired Disorders""; ""Methanol Intoxication""; ""Acute Diabetic Uraemia""; ""Hyperglycemia""; ""Fahr Disease""; ""Carbon Monoxide Intoxication""; ""Hepatic Encephalopathy""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Index""