Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society
by Miriam Kahn
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0521322227
- ISBN 13
- 9780521322225
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London: Cambridge University Press , 1986. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 187 pages, b&w maps, diagrams. The Wamira people of Papua New Guinea display what outsiders would describe as an obsession with food. Who owns how many pigs, how much taro grows in whose garden, and who contributes what food at a feast, are all questions uppermost in their thoughts. Wamirans account for this preoccupation by saying that they suffer from perpetual "famine." They explain this by means of an elaborate and colorful myth about Tamodukorokoro, a monster who would have brought them abundant food, but whom, in typical Wamiran style of fearing what they desire, they chased away. In this carefully crafted and beautifully evocative book, Dr. Kahn, who lived with the Wamira people for two and a half years, argues that Wamirans' "famine" has in fact little to do with the belly. For Wamirans, concepts of food and hunger are cultural constructs. Dr. Kahn writes with a degree of nuance that takes the reader beyond academic analyses into the experience of the ethnographer and the daily lives of the people with whom she resided. Clean copy. Record # 380690
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- 380690
- Title
- Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society
- Author
- Miriam Kahn
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0521322227
- ISBN 13
- 9780521322225
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Social Sciences, Anthropology, , .
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