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1 online resource (316 pages) |
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Inner Asia Book Ser |
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Inner Asia Book Ser
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Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Figures; Transcription of Mongolian Terms; Prologue; 1 Techniques and Material Culture: Details and Design; 2 Food Practices; 3 The Structuring Role of Food Sharing; 4 Food and Political or Religious Authorities; Part 1 Ordinary Food Practices: Restric ted Sharing; Chapter 1 The Space; 1 The Steppe; 2 The Encampment; 3 The Yurt; 4 The Stove; 5 Kitchen Utensils; Chapter 2 The Fundamental Pattern of the Meal; 1 A Three-Meal-a-Day System; 2 (Meat-Based) Soup, the Elementary Dish; 3 Meat, the "Nourishing" Food; Chapter 3 From Animal to Meat Product |
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1 Animal Herding2 Slaughtering; 3 Skinning; 4 Butchering: Processing the Meat and Bones; 5 Preserving and Storing; 6 Processing the Blood and the Viscera; Chapter 4 Basic Culinary Techniques; 1 Cutting Techniques; 2 The Share; 3 The Pieces; Chapter 5 Cooking Modes; 1 An Aversion to Raw Food; 2 The Essential Boiled Mode of Cooking; 3 The Other Modes of Cooking or Processing; Chapter 6 Distribution and Consumption of Meals; 1 Offering of the First Part; 2 Presentation, Service and Etiquette; 3 Consuming Shares and Pieces; 4 Sorting and Processing the Leftovers and Waste |
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Chapter 7 Food Sharing and Hospitality1 Closed/Open Restricted Sharing; 2 The Visitor and the Host: the Rule of Hospitality; 3 The Sequences of Different Visits; 4 The Different Kinds of Visits; 5 Hospitality Dishes, Festive Features; 6 The Alcohols of Hospitality: between Danger and Feast; 7 From Suspicion to Identification of the Visitor; 8 Restricted Sharing and the "Stock of Visitors"; 9 Sharing Happiness; Part 2 Extra-Ordinary Food Practices: Extended Sharing; Chapter 8 Extended Food Sharing; 1 Extending Sharing Thanks to the "Stock of Visitors"; 2 Specializing the Dishes |
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3 Inviting and Reinviting HappinessChapter 9 The Human Soul; 1 The Soul and Its Ties to the Body; 2 The Soul's Establishment in the Body; 3 The Rebirth of the Soul, a Tangle of Shamanic and Buddhist Principles; Chapter 10 Feast Food Practices-Birth; 1 Isolation of Bodies Polluted by Blood; 2 Protection of the New Mother and Her Baby; 3 The Birth Soup; 4 Opening and Closing the Body and Social Life; 5 White Porridges and Socialization; Chapter 11 Reverse of Feast Food Practices-Death; 1 Rites of Inversion and Isolation of Bodies Polluted by Death; 2 The Funeral Soup; 3 Merits |
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4 Purification Rites5 Offerings to the Deceased; Chapter 12 Extended or Generalized Food Sharing and Maintenance of Social Order; 1 (Meat) Soup or Broth; 2 Soliciting the "Stock of Visitors"; 3 Peace of Mind for the Living and Maintenance of Social Order; Chapter 13 Renewal: Closing and Opening Foods, Bodies and Social Relations; 1 White Month; 2 Preparing the Food; 3 Cleaning House for the New Year; 4 Closing the Old Year; 5 Opening the New Year; 6 Circulating Happiness; Epilogue; Appendix; Bibliography; Glossary; Index |
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Print version record |
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Sharing -- Mongolia
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Food habits -- Social aspects -- Mongolia
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Food consumption -- Social aspects -- Mongolia
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Sharing.
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Food consumption -- Social aspects
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Food habits -- Social aspects
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Sharing
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Mongolia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004410633 |
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9004410635 |
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