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Tamil Traditions: Women Cooking and Eating for Heritage and Health in South India.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tamil Traditions: Women Cooking and Eating for Heritage and Health in South India./
Author:	Chera, Madeline.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	350 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-11B.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27957945
ISBN:	9798645423605

Tamil Traditions: Women Cooking and Eating for Heritage and Health in South India.
Chera, Madeline.

Tamil Traditions: Women Cooking and Eating for Heritage and Health in South India. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 350 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Increases in diet-related diseases, imminent climate crises, and rapid changes in lifestyle are provoking widespread attempts in South India to return to and preserve traditional foodways. In the city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, people recognize food as a conduit of cultural heritage and perceive their consumption practices as opportunities to secure and demonstrate their ethnic identity. While we see examples of food culture revitalization in other parts of the world, the practices in Madurai of cooking and eating foods marked as traditional, or thinking about doing so, ensure physical, metaphysical, and social well-being in ways that are culturally specific to the local Tamil context. In some cases, these eating strategies are explicit, as with the promotion of so-called "neglected and underutilized species" like minor millet grains, through large-scale public campaigns. In other ways, complex but taken-for-granted understandings of ideal family dynamics, the scope of valid knowledge, ethno-ecology, and personhood guide the high value placed on traditional food consumption.The path to re-embracing traditional foods is a winding and uneven one, with many obstacles and complications standing between everyday eaters, their assertion of Tamil heritage, and their striving toward well-being through Tamil food culture. In this ethnographic dissertation, I illustrate the challenges that non-profits and entrepreneurs are facing in transforming views of historically stigmatized foods, despite a range of purported benefits. I use extensive interview, cultural domain analysis, and participant observation data to show how young women navigate liminal categories and often confusing messaging about traditional and novel foods. They utilize aspects of culturally specific Tamil worldviews and the lessons of their elders to mitigate risk to their health and to critique aspects of the neoliberal, global food system that spawns that risk. Simultaneously, they try to balance deeply ingrained Tamil values about gender, domesticity, purity, beauty, and flexibility, with changing opportunities and new expectations. Their comments indicate shared commitment to food revitalization as a means to preserve not only Tamil culture but also personal and collective well-being, but they also underscore the uneven responsibility born by individual women to maintain heritage and health in the face of culture change.

ISBN: 9798645423605Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.
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Cultural anthropology

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