By Carole M. Counihan, Steven L. Kaplan

This quantity examines, between different issues, the importance of food-centered actions to gender relatives and the development of gendered identities throughout cultures. It considers how every one gender's dating to nutrients may perhaps facilitate mutual appreciate or produce gender hierarchy. This dating is taken into account via vital questions: How does keep watch over of meals construction, distribution, and intake give a contribution to men's and women's energy and social place? and the way does foodstuff symbolically connote maleness and femaleness and identify the social price of fellows and girls? different matters mentioned include men's and women's attitudes in the direction of their our bodies and the legitimacy in their appetites.

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Of their guests. Generous hospitality presses people’s resources and sociability to such a degree that at times they choose to avoid one another completely (March 1979).

2 32 KAHN Figure 1 Location of Wamira within Papua New Guinea. The dry season is particularly long, lasting for eight months from April through November. The limited rainfall, and the resultant grassy vegetation, make horticultural production (the main source of subsistence) in Wamira more laborious than in other, more tropical parts of the country. In contrast to their fellow Papua New Guineans, who cultivate plots by slash-and-burn techniques, Wamirans must cultivate gardens in the savanna, where the stoloniferous roots of the grass (Imperata cylindrica) render work extremely difficult.

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