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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1. VerfasserIn: Beckmann, Heribert (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaft: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Grad-verleihende Institution)
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Tübingen 2022
In:Jahr: 2022
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Tamil Nadu / Reisanbau / Ritus / Sozialökologie / Sozioökonomischer Wandel
RelBib Classification:AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
KBM Asien
ZB Soziologie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung: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.