Kinship And Food in South East Asia

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ISBN: 9788791114939 | 8791114934
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/30/2007

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There has been a growing acceptance that food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in Southeast Asian societies. This volume demonstrates that within all of them the feeding relationship is fundamental to the establishment and the nature of relations within generations and between generations.

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Introduction : feeding the right food : the flow of life and the construction of kinship in Southeast Asia	p. 1
Reconstructing the whole : seven months pregnancy ritual in Kerek, East Java	p. 24
Food and the family : assimilation in a Malay village	p. 54
Food, fertility and kinship in Minangkabau	p. 71
Being 'big', being 'good' : feeding, kinship, potency and status among the Kelabit of Sarawak	p. 93
Nurturance and the spectre of neglect : Sasak ways of dealing with the dead	p. 121
Nurturing memories : the cycle of mortuary meals in an East Indonesian village	p. 149
Constructing bodies, constructing identities : nurture and kinship ties in a Papuan society	p. 170
Rice rituals, kinship identities and ethnicity in Central Flores	p. 196
Rice for the ancestors : food offerings, kinship and merit among the Isan of northeast Thailand	p. 223
Glutinous rice, kinship and the Tet festival in Vietnam	p. 242
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