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Author Pe⁺ѓrez, Elizabeth, 1975- author.

Title Religion in the kitchen : cooking, talking, and the making of Black Atlantic traditions / Elizabeth Perez.

Pub Info New York : New York University Press, [2016]

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Descript 1 online resource (xi, 298 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations
Series North American religions
North American religions.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Ordinary Home Cooking; 1. Space, Time, and Ache; 2. Kitchen, Food, and Family; Part II. Kitchen Work; 3. Engendering Knowledge; 4. Gendering the Kitchen; Part III. Kitchen Talk; 5. Tasting Affliction; 6. Walking the Talk; Conclusion: Micropractices in Macrocosm; Notes; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
Summary Before honey can be offered to the Afro-Cuban deity Ochu⁺ѓn, it must be tasted, to prove to her that it is good. In African-inspired religions throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, such gestures instill the attitudes that turn participants into practitioners. Acquiring deep knowledge of the diets of the gods and ancestors constructs adherents' identities; to learn to fix the gods' favourite dishes is to be 'seasoned' into their service. In this innovative work, Elizabeth Pe⁺ѓrez reveals how seemingly trivial 'micropractices' such as the preparation of sacred foods, are complex rituals in their own right.
Note English.
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Subject Santeria -- Customs and practices.
Cooking -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Miscellanea.
Black people -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Religion.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Black people -- Religion. (OCoLC)fst00833993
Cooking. (OCoLC)fst01754966
Atlantic Ocean Region. (OCoLC)fst01723575
Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus
Kochen.
Konversation
Kult
Ritual
Santeri⁺ѓa
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