The making and unmaking of the Haya lived world : consumption, commoditization, and everday practice
Suitable for historians, anthropologists, ethnographers, and scholars of cultural studies, this book explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their community, and examines the forces that shape and transform these practices over time.
viii, 250 p : ill., maps ; 24 cm
9780822317258, 9780822317227, 0822317257, 0822317222
1166897640
Acknowledgments vii 1. An Orientation to the Study 1 I. Making the World 27 2. "Evil Flee, Goodness Come In": Creating and Securing Domesticity 29 3. Heartplaces and Households: Haya Culinary Practices 51 4. Mealtime: Providing and Presenting a Meal 80 5. A Moral Gastronomy: Value and Action in the Experience of Food 127 II. The World Unmade 151 6. Plastic Teeth Extraction: An Iconography of Gastrosexual Affliction 155 7. "Buying Her Grave": Money, Movement, and AIDS 179 8. Electric Vampires: From Embodied Commodities to Commoditized Bodies 202 9. Conclusions: The Enchantment of the Disenchanted World 220 Notes 227 References 239 Index 247