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Religion in the kitchen : cooking, talking, and the making of Black Atlantic traditions / Elizabeth Perez.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: North American religionsPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 298 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781479803217
  • 1479803219
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion in the kitchenDDC classification:
  • 299.6/74 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2532.S3 P43 2016eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Ordinary Home Cooking -- 1. Space, Time, and Ache -- 2. Kitchen, Food, and Family -- Part II. Kitchen Work -- 3. Engendering Knowledge -- 4. Gendering the Kitchen -- Part III. Kitchen Talk -- 5. Tasting Affliction -- 6. Walking the Talk -- Conclusion: Micropractices in Macrocosm -- Notes -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: Before honey can be offered to the Afro-Cuban deity Ochún, it must be tasted, to prove to her that it is good. In African-inspired religions throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, such gestures instill the attitudes that turn participants into practitioners. Acquiring deep knowledge of the diets of the gods and ancestors constructs adherents' identities; to learn to fix the gods' favourite dishes is to be 'seasoned' into their service. In this innovative work, Elizabeth Pérez reveals how seemingly trivial 'micropractices' such as the preparation of sacred foods, are complex rituals in their own right. Drawing on years of ethnographic research in Chicago among practitioners of Lucumí, the transnational tradition popularly known as Santería, Pérez focuses on the behind-the-scenes work of the primarily women and gay men responsible for feeding the gods. She reveals how cooking and talking around the kitchen table have played vital socializing roles in Black Atlantic religions." --Provided by publisher
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1084132

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 3, 2024.)

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Ordinary Home Cooking -- 1. Space, Time, and Ache -- 2. Kitchen, Food, and Family -- Part II. Kitchen Work -- 3. Engendering Knowledge -- 4. Gendering the Kitchen -- Part III. Kitchen Talk -- 5. Tasting Affliction -- 6. Walking the Talk -- Conclusion: Micropractices in Macrocosm -- Notes -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Before honey can be offered to the Afro-Cuban deity Ochún, it must be tasted, to prove to her that it is good. In African-inspired religions throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, such gestures instill the attitudes that turn participants into practitioners. Acquiring deep knowledge of the diets of the gods and ancestors constructs adherents' identities; to learn to fix the gods' favourite dishes is to be 'seasoned' into their service. In this innovative work, Elizabeth Pérez reveals how seemingly trivial 'micropractices' such as the preparation of sacred foods, are complex rituals in their own right. Drawing on years of ethnographic research in Chicago among practitioners of Lucumí, the transnational tradition popularly known as Santería, Pérez focuses on the behind-the-scenes work of the primarily women and gay men responsible for feeding the gods. She reveals how cooking and talking around the kitchen table have played vital socializing roles in Black Atlantic religions." --Provided by publisher

English.