Sacred grains, poisonous foods: rice, modernity, and social-ecological disembedding in a South Indian village
This study investigates how changes in the dynamics of rice production, distribution, and consumption that occurred in recent decades have influenced the ways in which different people in and around a rice-cultivating village in Tamil Nadu, India, engage with, perceive, and evaluate rice in differen...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tübingen
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tamil Nadu
/ Rice
/ Ritual
/ Social ecology
/ Socioeconomic change
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KBM Asia ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | This study investigates how changes in the dynamics of rice production, distribution, and consumption that occurred in recent decades have influenced the ways in which different people in and around a rice-cultivating village in Tamil Nadu, India, engage with, perceive, and evaluate rice in different areas of their lives, describe and understand the relationship between rice and their bodies, and engage with and understand different social and ecological actors and entities in relation to rice. |
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