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200 10$aUncertain tastes$b[electronic resource] $ememory, ambivalence, and the politics of eating in Samburu, northern Kenya /$fJon Holtzman
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2009
215   $a1 online resource (297 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-25737-5 
311   $a0-520-25736-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart 1. Orientations -- $tPart 2. Worlds of Food -- $tPart 3. Histories of Eating -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex
330   $aThis richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu reaction to the new foods is primarily negative-they are referred to disparagingly as "gray food" and "government food"-it is also deeply ambivalent. For example, the Samburu attribute a host of social maladies to these dietary changes, including selfishness and moral decay. Yet because the new foods save lives during famines, the same individuals also talk of the triumph of reason over an antiquated culture and speak enthusiastically of a better life where there is less struggle to find food. Through detailed analysis of a range of food-centered arenas, Uncertain Tastes argues that the experience of food itself-symbolic, sensuous, social, and material-is intrinsically characterized by multiple and frequently conflicting layers.
410  0$aACLS Fellows' Publications.
517 3 $aMemory, ambivalence, and the politics of eating in Samburu, northern Kenya
606   $aSamburu (African people)$xFood
606   $aSamburu (African people)$xDomestic animals
606   $aSamburu (African people)$xSocial conditions
606   $aFood habits$zKenya$zSamburu District
606   $aFood preferences$zKenya$zSamburu District
606   $aFood$xSymbolic aspects$zKenya$zSamburu District
606   $aCulture conflict$zKenya$zSamburu District
606   $aSocial change$zKenya$zSamburu District
607   $aSamburu District (Kenya)$xSocial conditions
607   $aSamburu District (Kenya)$xEconomic conditions
610   $aafrican culture.
610   $aagricultural products.
610   $aagriculture.
610   $aanthropology.
610   $abasic diet.
610   $ablood.
610   $acattle.
610   $acultural studies.
610   $aeating.
610   $aethnography.
610   $afamines.
610   $afood.
610   $agastronomy.
610   $agovernment food.
610   $agray food.
610   $akenya.
610   $akenyan culture.
610   $aloikop.
610   $alokop.
610   $ameat.
610   $amilk.
610   $amoral decay.
610   $anilotic people.
610   $anorth central kenya.
610   $anorthern kenya.
610   $apastoralists.
610   $asamburu cattle herders.
610   $asamburu culture.
610   $asamburu material life.
610   $asamburu social life.
610   $asamburu tribe.
610   $asamburu.
610   $aselfishness.
610   $asemi nomadic.
610   $astruggle for food.
615  0$aSamburu (African people)$xFood.
615  0$aSamburu (African people)$xDomestic animals.
615  0$aSamburu (African people)$xSocial conditions.
615  0$aFood habits
615  0$aFood preferences
615  0$aFood$xSymbolic aspects
615  0$aCulture conflict
615  0$aSocial change
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