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Remembrance of Repasts - An Anthropology of Food and Memory (Paperback, Revised)
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Remembrance of Repasts - An Anthropology of Food and Memory (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Materializing Culture
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Proust's famous madeleine captures the power of food to evoke some
of our deepest memories. Why does food hold such power? What does
the growing commodification and globalization of food mean for our
capacity to store the past in our meals ñ in the smell of olive oil
or the taste of a fresh-cut fig?
This book offers a theoretical account of the interrelationship of
culture, food and memory. Sutton challenges and expands
anthropology's current focus on issues of embodiment, memory and
material culture, especially in relation to transnational migration
and the flow of culture across borders and boundaries. The Greek
island of Kalymnos in the eastern Aegean, where Islanders claim to
remember meals long past -- both humble and spectacular ñ provides
the main setting for these issues, as well as comparative materials
drawn from England and the United States. Despite the growing
interest in anthropological accounts of food and in the cultural
construction of memory, the intersection of food with memory has
not been accorded sustained examination. Cultural practices of
feasting and fasting, global flows of food as both gifts and
commodities, the rise of processed food and the relationship of
orally transmitted recipes to the vast market in speciality
cookbooks tie traditional anthropological mainstays such as ritual,
exchange and death to more current concerns with structure and
history, cognition and the 'anthropology of the senses'. Arguing
for the crucial role of a simultaneous consideration of food and
memory, this book significantly advances our understanding of
cultural processes and reformulates current theoretical
preoccupations.
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