TY - JOUR
T1 - gastro‐politics in Hindu South Asia
AU - APPADURAI, ARJUN
PY - 1981/8
Y1 - 1981/8
N2 - The general semiotic properties of food take particularly intense forms in the context of gastro‐politics – where food is the medium, and sometimes the message, of conflict. In South Asia, where beliefs about food encode a complex set of social and moral propositions, food serves two diametrically opposed semiotic functions: it can either homogenize the actors who transact in it, or it can serve to heterogenize them. In the Tamil Brahmin community of South India, this underlying tension takes three particular forms in the arenas of the household, the marriage feast, and the temple. [food, symbolism, semiotics, politics, South India] 1981 American Anthropological Association
AB - The general semiotic properties of food take particularly intense forms in the context of gastro‐politics – where food is the medium, and sometimes the message, of conflict. In South Asia, where beliefs about food encode a complex set of social and moral propositions, food serves two diametrically opposed semiotic functions: it can either homogenize the actors who transact in it, or it can serve to heterogenize them. In the Tamil Brahmin community of South India, this underlying tension takes three particular forms in the arenas of the household, the marriage feast, and the temple. [food, symbolism, semiotics, politics, South India] 1981 American Anthropological Association
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U2 - 10.1525/ae.1981.8.3.02a00050
DO - 10.1525/ae.1981.8.3.02a00050
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981939387
SN - 0094-0496
VL - 8
SP - 494
EP - 511
JO - American Ethnologist
JF - American Ethnologist
IS - 3
ER -