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London: Cambridge University Press , 1986. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 187 pages, b&w maps, diagrams. The Wamira people of Papua New Guinea display what outsiders would describe as an obsession with food. Who owns how many pigs, how much taro grows in whose garden, and who contributes what food at a feast, are all questions uppermost in their thoughts. Wamirans account for this preoccupation by saying that they suffer from perpetual "famine." They explain this by means of an elaborate and colorful myth about Tamodukorokoro, a monster who would have brought them abundant food, but whom, in typical Wamiran style of fearing what they desire, they chased away. In this carefully crafted and beautifully evocative book, Dr. Kahn, who lived with the Wamira people for two and a half years, argues that Wamirans' "famine" has in fact little to do with the belly. For Wamirans, concepts of food and hunger are cultural constructs. Dr. Kahn writes with a degree of nuance that takes…
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Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society Hardcover - 1986
by Miriam Kahn
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- Title Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society
- Author Miriam Kahn
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Printing
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Oakleigh, Vic, Australia
- Date 1986
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780521322225 / 0521322227
- Library of Congress subjects Food habits - Papua New Guinea, Wedau (Papua New Guinean people)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86002271
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.089
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986.. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, gift note on endpaper else fine in near fine blue pictorial dj. 187 pp. including index. These New Guinea people display what outsiders would describe as an obsession with food. Who owns how many pigs, how much taro grows in whose garden, and who contributes what food at a feast, are all questions uppermost in their thoughts.
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