Eating beside Ourselves
Eating beside Ourselves Eating beside Ourselves examines eating as a site of transfer and transformation across bodies and selves. In case studies ranging from nineteenth- and twentieth-century…
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Eating beside Ourselves
Eating beside Ourselves examines eating as a site of transfer and transformation across bodies and selves. In case studies ranging from nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrial animal husbandry in the United States, biodynamic winemaking in Aotearoa New Zealand, and reindeer herding in Arctic Norway to the creation of taste sensation in pet food and the entanglement of sugar and diabetes in the Caribbean, the contributors explore how food and eating create thresholds for human and nonhuman relations. The contributors show that by turning organic substance into food, acts of eating create interconnected food webs organized by relative conditions of edibility through which eaters may in turn become eaten.
These thresholds mediate different conditions and states of being: between living and dying, the edible and inedible, and the relationship between living organisms and their
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