TY - JOUR AU - Liep, John PY - 1998/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - ET VILDNIS AF TABUER: Jagten på en kulinarisk struktur JF - Tidsskriftet Antropologi JA - TA VL - 0 IS - 39 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/ta.v0i39.115167 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/tidsskriftetantropologi/article/view/115167 SP - AB - <p>John Liep: A Wilderness of Taboos: The</p><p>Quest for a Culinary Structure</p><p>Recent anthropological research in</p><p>Melanesia has focused on the construction of</p><p>the person, theories of conception and</p><p>procreation, and flows of substances through</p><p>social relations and persons. There will often</p><p>be a correspondence between substances</p><p>such as sperm and biood, bodily parts such as</p><p>bone and flesh, and contrasting foods that are</p><p>gendered. An asymmetric constitution of the</p><p>person and a clear structuration of food</p><p>prestations between affinal sides may exist.</p><p>A study of these themes on Rossel Island,</p><p>Papua New Guinea yielded frustrating</p><p>results. No clear idea of contrasting, gendered</p><p>body aspects was found. Further, a large</p><p>number of food taboos for menstruating,</p><p>pregnant and lactating women was</p><p>distributed in clusters that were amenable to</p><p>various logics of interpretation without any</p><p>total structural logic appearing. This</p><p>negative result is explained by the absence of</p><p>any sustained practice of asymmetric</p><p>marriage and corresponding complementary</p><p>prestations between affines, which would</p><p>reproduce an ordering asymmetric structure</p><p>of the person and of the universe of foods.</p> ER -