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Uncertain Tastes : Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya.

This 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 m...

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Main Author: Holtzman, Jon.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Samburu (African people) > Food.
Samburu (African people) > Domestic animals.
Samburu (African people) > Social conditions.
Food habits > Kenya > Samburu District.
Food preferences > Kenya > Samburu District.
Food > Symbolic aspects > Kenya > Samburu District.
Culture conflict > Kenya > Samburu District.
Social change > Kenya > Samburu District.
COOKING > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Food Science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Samburu District (Kenya) > Social conditions.
Samburu District (Kenya) > Economic conditions.
Electronic books.
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Check holdings at Paniza Library, AUBG Call Number: DT433.545.S26H653 2009

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