The interdisciplinary approaches presented here investigate food in India and Sri Lanka for its wide ranging cultural meaning and uses. The authors examine food in religious and literary contexts, where saints, ritualists, poets, and the divine often provide grounds for a practically inexhaustible hermeneutics. The Eternal Food focuses on reflexive cultural expressions and personal experiences that food elicits in the region. Concerned with food as an "essence" and as an essential experience, the authors give special ...
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The interdisciplinary approaches presented here investigate food in India and Sri Lanka for its wide ranging cultural meaning and uses. The authors examine food in religious and literary contexts, where saints, ritualists, poets, and the divine often provide grounds for a practically inexhaustible hermeneutics. The Eternal Food focuses on reflexive cultural expressions and personal experiences that food elicits in the region. Concerned with food as an "essence" and as an essential experience, the authors give special attention to Hindu saints for whom food, firmly grounded in moral ideals and practice, represents a cosmic divine principle at one level, and a most immediate and intimate material reality at another. In the cultural diversity of India, the authors work with several conceptual models and meanings of food. They demonstrate how it reflects common social understandings about social caste, the cure and prevention of ailments, its ability to alter moods and motivations, or affect innate personal dispositions, personal spiritual pursuits and attainments. In its sweep and depth, food presents a powerful cultural lens for seeing how practical, ritual, and spiritual spheres of life conjoin.
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Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. xiv, 273 pp., 23x15cm, Contains 8 papers. Includes: R.S. Khare "Food with Saints: An Aspect of Hindu Gastrosemantics"; D.G. White "You Are What You Eat: The Anomalous Status of Dog-Cookers in Hindu Mythology": V. Aklujkar "Sharing the Divine Feast: Evolution of Food Metaphor in Marathi Sant Poetry"; P.M. Toomey " Mountain of Food, Mountain of Love: Ritual Inversion in the Annakuta Feast at Mount Govardhan"; M. Moreno "Pancamirtam: God's Washings as Food"; H.L. Seneviratne "Food Essence & the Essence of Experience"; R.S. Khare " Annambrahman: Cultural Models, Meanings & Aesthetics of Hindu Food"; A.K. Ramanujan "Food for Thought: Toward an Anthology of Food Images".
