A body set between hot and cold: everyday sensory labor and attunement in an Indian village.
In Bihar, India, rural people conceptualize the body through a humoral framework and strive to regulate the body by balancing flows of heating and cooling foods. Rural people's sense of embodied well-being emerges not just through the sensory aspects of eating but also through the ongoing labor of p...
| Publicado en: | Food, Culture & Society Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 237 - 253 |
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Apr2019
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