{"product_id":"food-community-and-the-spirit-suzanne-hanchett-9780990633785","title":"Food, Community, and the Spirit World: An Indian Village Study","description":"This is a detailed ethnographic study of food beliefs and practices in two villages of Hassan District, Karnataka State (formerly Mysore), India: Chinnapura and Bandipur.\" The author is an anthropological linguist who resided in the locality for almost two years in 1966-67. He provides the reader with an unusually detailed view of the intersections of language, food, and social relationships. Food is viewed as an important structuring aspect of the Hindu world view, a way that people symbolically represent and reproduce their own identities, gender relationships, and the differences among local castes and sub-castes. The roles of foods and food exchange in weddings, ancestor ceremonies, and other family ceremonies is explored. The area visited no longer exists, having been submerged by a dam project; but the reader has an opportunity to probe deeply into the life of a community as it was fifty years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Suzanne Hanchett,Stanley Regelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0990633780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780990633785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Development Resources Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d","brand":"Suzanne Hanchett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48799508070655,"sku":"9780990633785","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/food-community-and-the-spirit-suzanne-hanchett-9780990633785","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}