Browsing Sosialantropologisk institutt by Author "Van Daele, Wim"

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  • Desiring foods: Cultivating non-attachment to nourishment in Buddhist Sri Lanka 
    Van Daele, Wim (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    Food and desire are intimately entangled whereby food becomes a core tool to manage desire in fashioning oneself as a morally virtuous person. This paper looks at the ways in which Buddhist texts conceptualize human ...
  • Food as the Holographic Condensation of Life in Sri Lankan Rituals 
    Van Daele, Wim (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    This paper seeks to elaborate the dynamics through which food acquires potency in shaping human life and organisation as it takes shape in enacting ritual transformation. I argue that whereas life and various existential ...
  • Vibrantly Entangled in Sri Lanka: Food as the Polyrhythmic and Polyphonic Assemblage of Life 
    Van Daele, Wim (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
    Creatively operationalizing Claude Lévi-Strauss’ predicament that food is good to think with, I initiate a methodological conceptualization of food by exploring the ways in which it is apt to study Sri Lankan domestic and ...