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- Title
The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract.
- Authors
Turk, Mladen
- Abstract
Elizabeth Pérez, ethnographer and historian of Afro-Diasporic and Latin American religions (University of California, Santa Barbara), is well-known for a book on anthropology of food titled I Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, & the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions i (New York University Press, 2016). For anyone who ever had a "gut feeling" of something or is interested in how recent studies in neurogastroenterology could be understood when informed with religious practices, Pérez' monograph is a welcome reading. In Afro-Diasporic religions, gut feelings are understood as something that must be addressed, and perhaps even controlled, through the symbolic framework of gut beings, specific deities, which are subject to ritual and ethnomedical intervention.
- Subjects
ALIMENTARY canal; RELIGIOUS behaviors; COLLECTIVE behavior; COOKING; COLLECTIVE memory
- Publication
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 2023, Vol 58, Issue 4, p1127
- ISSN
0591-2385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/zygo.12929