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Book SynopsisEating beside Ourselves examines eating as a site of transfer and transformation across bodies and selves. The contributors show that by turning organic substance into food, acts of eating create interconnected food webs organized by relative conditions of edibility through which eaters may in turn become eaten. In case studies ranging from nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrial animal husbandry in the United States, biodynamic winemaking in Aotearoa New Zealand, and reindeer herding in Arctic Norway to the creation of taste sensation in pet food and the entanglement of sugar and diabetes in the Caribbean, the contributors explore how food and eating create thresholds for human and nonhuman relations. These thresholds mediate different conditions and states of being: between living and dying, between the edible and the inedible, and the relationship between living organisms and their surrounding environment. In this way, acts of eating and the process of metabolism partake
Trade Review"This book offers both approachable case studies and provocations for academic conversation across disciplines, such as environmental and medical ethics or human geography and global justice. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals."
-- S. M. Weiss * Choice *
Table of ContentsForeword / Wim Van Daele ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Eating Beside Ourselves / Heather Paxson 1
1. Sweetness across Thresholds at the Edge of the Sea / Amy Moran-Thomas 29
2. The Food of Our Food: Medicated Feed and the Industrialization of Metabolism / Hannah Landecker 56
Intercalary Exchange. Processing / Hannah Lnadecker and Alex Blanchette 86
3. The Politics of Palatability: Hog Viscera, Pet Food, and the Trade in Industrial Sense Impressions / Alex Blanchette 89
Intercalary Exchange. (In)Edibility / Alex Blanchette and Marianne Elisabeth Lien 11
4. Becoming Food: Edibility as Threshold in Arctic Norway / Marianne Elisabeth Lien 114
Intercelary Exchange. Giving / Marianne Elisabeth and Harris Solomon 137
5. On Life Support / Harris Solomon 140
Intercalary Exchange. Transgression / Harris Solomon and Emily Yates-Doerr 158
6. The Placenta: An Ethnographic Account of Feeding Relations / Emily Yates-Doerr 163
Intercalary Exchange/ Nourishment / Emily Yates-Doerr and Deborah Health 187
7. Between Sky and Earth: Biodynamic Viticulture's Slow Science / Deborah Heath 191
Contributors 219
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