Practices of Fruit Growing. Applying ontology to taste in Penang and beyond
Using as a privileged entry point the numb taste — a tingly numbness of the mucous membranes of the mouth, triggered here by a fruit, the durian—this article puts forth an approach to human-food relations encompassing different modes of knowledge, consumption, and production.Steering clear of any th...
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2018-12-01
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| description | Using as a privileged entry point the numb taste — a tingly numbness of the mucous membranes of the mouth, triggered here by a fruit, the durian—this article puts forth an approach to human-food relations encompassing different modes of knowledge, consumption, and production.Steering clear of any theoretical abuse, the approach draws on a detailed ethnographical analysis of this particular taste and the general economy in which it is inscribed, between Malaysia and Singapore, to finally conceptualize various ways of producing and experiencing foods and worlds.The emergence of the numb taste will notably be linked to an agricultural and ontological constraint that the producers and consumers from both countries impose on themselves: against apparent economic good sense, instead of picking them, they wait for the durians to fall from the tree. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-72336882917d48c1ba0707db3109be8f2025-02-05T16:24:50ZengLaboratoire Éco-anthropologie et EthnobiologieRevue d'ethnoécologie2267-24192018-12-011410.4000/ethnoecologie.3869Practices of Fruit Growing. Applying ontology to taste in Penang and beyondLeo MarianiUsing as a privileged entry point the numb taste — a tingly numbness of the mucous membranes of the mouth, triggered here by a fruit, the durian—this article puts forth an approach to human-food relations encompassing different modes of knowledge, consumption, and production.Steering clear of any theoretical abuse, the approach draws on a detailed ethnographical analysis of this particular taste and the general economy in which it is inscribed, between Malaysia and Singapore, to finally conceptualize various ways of producing and experiencing foods and worlds.The emergence of the numb taste will notably be linked to an agricultural and ontological constraint that the producers and consumers from both countries impose on themselves: against apparent economic good sense, instead of picking them, they wait for the durians to fall from the tree.https://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/3869tastenumb tasteaffectstechniquescrop growingtemporalities |
| spellingShingle | Leo Mariani Practices of Fruit Growing. Applying ontology to taste in Penang and beyond Revue d'ethnoécologie taste numb taste affects techniques crop growing temporalities |
| title | Practices of Fruit Growing. Applying ontology to taste in Penang and beyond |
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| title_short | Practices of Fruit Growing. Applying ontology to taste in Penang and beyond |
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