“吃”是一个英文单词（安玛莉·摩尔） Eating Is an English Word Annemarie Mol

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 200 pages, 8 illustrations

Publisher:Duke University Press

Imprint:Duke University Press

ISBN:9781478030867

Published:4 Oct 2024

Classifications:English, linguistics, Food & society, Anthropology

Weight:290g

Dimensions:228 x 154 x 15 (mm)

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

吃通常被理解为人类的一种需求，人们以不同的方式来满足它。然而，“吃”也是一个英语单词。其他语言，用其他的词，对现实的排序不同：他们可能把吃和呼吸融合在一起，或者把chupar和corner区分开来。

人类学家通过留下一些未翻译的词语来标记这种差异，但我们用什么语言思考呢？这并不一定是英语。我们可能在语言上更接近我们研究的对象：他们。在这种背景下，《吃是一个英语单词》认为，社会科学家应该放弃普遍概念的梦想。

我们的分析项最好变化。Annemarie Mol和她的合著者在一系列关于饮食习惯的物质符号学研究中举例说明了这一点。他们使用像lekker，用手指品尝，chupar, schmecka， gustar这样的术语来探索价值的欣赏模式。

那么，欢迎大家来听一些充满活力的故事，比如满足的胃、对羔羊的喜爱、多汁的水果、友好的午餐和晚餐。

Eating is generally understood as a human need that people satisfy in diverse ways. Eating, however, is also an English word. Other languages, using other words, order reality differently: they may fuse eating with breathing, or distinguish chupar from comer.

Anthropologists flag such differences by leaving a few of their words untranslated, but what language do we think in? This isn’t necessarily English. We may be linguistically closer to those whose practices we study: them. Against this background, Eating Is an English Word argues that social scientists should let go of the dream of universal concepts.

Our analytical terms had better vary. Annemarie Mol and her coauthors exemplify this in a series of material semiotic inquiries into eating practices. They employ terms like lekker, tasting with fingers, chupar, schmecka, gustar, and settling on an okay meal to explore appreciative modes of valuing.

Welcome, then, to spirited stories about satisfied stomachs, love for a lamb, juicy fruit treats, and companionable lunches and dinners.

作者简介

Annemarie Mol是阿姆斯特丹大学人体人类学教授，著有《饮食理论》和《身体多重：医学实践中的本体论》，均由杜克大学出版社出版。

Annemarie Mol is Professor of Anthropology of the Body at the University of Amsterdam and author of Eating in Theory and The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice, both also published by Duke University Press.