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From nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss' legacy and the study of contemporary foodways
Mescoli, Elsa; Graf, Katharina
2020In Food, Culture and Society
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Keywords :
food; anthropology; legacies
Abstract :
[en] n the first volume of his Mythologiques, entitled The Raw and the Cooked, Claude Lévi-Strauss argued that the preparation of food is a form of language that reveals a society's structure. For Lévi-Strauss, the so-called culinary triangle of the raw, the rotten and the cooked represents a semantic field within which the various forms of transformation of food from nature into culture play a key role. Since Lévi-Strauss, following extensive changes to food production, preparation and consumption, the notion of cooking has become ever more diversified, and became increasingly contentious. Yet, the multiple ways of combining and processing ingredients still give social and cultural meanings to food and trigger the creation of sociabilities and belongings through its own destruction (Gell 1986). This panel aims to explore Levi-Strauss' legacy and evaluate its usefulness in today's context from different angles, ranging from domestic food preparation to industrial production and global circulations of food. To what extent can this concept still provide an interpretative framework of topical food issues? Which contemporary myths does it shed light on? How could it be deployed to read the history of food and link it to contemporary questions? This panel welcomes papers on the history of food preparation, contemporary food preparation, including debates in professional and multimedia circles, various forms of food production and the possible transformation of food within globalised food markets. Although mobilizing a classic anthropological theory, this panel aims to be interdisciplinary and to present a diverse range of analytical perspectives.
Disciplines :
Anthropology
Author, co-author :
Mescoli, Elsa  ;  Université de Liège > Faculté des sciences sociales > Labo d'anthropologie sociale et culturelle (LASC)
Graf, Katharina;  SOAS Food Studies Centre, University of London
Language :
English
Title :
From nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss' legacy and the study of contemporary foodways
Publication date :
July 2020
Journal title :
Food, Culture and Society
ISSN :
1552-8014
eISSN :
1751-7443
Publisher :
Taylor & Francis, United Kingdom
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Commentary :
Publication stemmed by a panel organized at the EASA Conference 2016
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