Eating, sharing, and mutuality of being among the mentawai on Siberut Island, Indonesia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378009%3A_____%2F25%3A00600528" target="_blank" >RIV/68378009:_____/25:00600528 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15528014.2024.2359773" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15528014.2024.2359773</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2359773" target="_blank" >10.1080/15528014.2024.2359773</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Eating, sharing, and mutuality of being among the mentawai on Siberut Island, Indonesia
Original language description
This article examines the importance of sharing and eating in constructing personhood, reproducing social institutions, and reenacting social value. Based on 18 months of fieldwork among the Indigenous Mentawai living on Siberut Island (Indonesia), it examines eating and sharing that hint at food’s importance in the Mentawai’s idea of family, kinship, and mutuality. Eating and sharing food are not merely digestive activities, they constitute a process whereby the Mentawai redefine and remake their mutuality with others. At once material, moral, affective, and symbolic, Mentawai sharing and eating reveals how nourishment is shaped not just by food materiality or mode of livelihood but also by how they develop creative social relations with non-human entities. I argue that it is only by pursuing the Mentawai’s mode of thinking and relating with more-than-human beings that one may understand the centrality of sharing in bringing humans and non-human persons together in a shared world.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA24-13058S" target="_blank" >GA24-13058S: Beyond Insecurity: Changing Indigenous People’s Foodways in Time of Climate Change in Indonesia (BICOFID)</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Food Culture & Society
ISSN
1552-8014
e-ISSN
1751-7443
Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
001238431900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85195215643