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Taste and Meaning by Ugo Volli is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Taste and Meaning about?
Abstract A basic anthropological fact is that, although hunger is a constant experience in human history, not everything that from a biochemical point of view could be nutritious, in fact is eaten. In every human culture, food, not unlike language, is controlled by rich sets of rules that establish obligations and prohibitions, contextual bonds to time, and circumstances and syntactic structures for different types of meal. Often these rules – as well as linguistic ones – are unconscious, taken as “natural.” All of these rules detach food from its simple and natural properties, and give it some meaning, although this meaning is not easy to define, making food more similar to a self-referential mark than to a regular text. In this paper I analyze a specific case of these almost linguistic alimentary systems, the set of the dietary laws in the Jewish tradition and in particular its complex alimentary interdictions. The hierarchical structure of these rules is discussed and the problem of the connected effects of sense is addressed.
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- Author
- Ugo Volli
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)