Overview

Recipes as Reciprocity considers the ways that food and research intersect for both researchers, participants, and communities demonstrating how everyday acts around food preparation, consumption, and sharing can enable unexpected approaches to reciprocal research and fuel relationships across cultures, generations, spaces, and places. Drawing from research contexts within Canada, Cuba, India, Malawi, Nepal, Paraguay, and Japan, contributors use the sharing of food knowledge and food processes (such as drying, steaming, mixing, grinding, and churning) to examine topics like identity, community-based research ethics, food sovereignty, and nutrition. Each chapter highlights practical and experiential elements of fieldwork, incorporating storytelling, recipes, and methodological practices to offer insight into how food facilitates relationship-building and knowledge-sharing across geographical and cultural boarders. Contributors to this volume bring a range of disciplinary backgrounds—including anthropology, public health, social work, history, and rural studies—to the exploration of global and Indigenous foodways, perceptions around ethical eating and authenticity, language and food preparation, perspectives on healthy eating, and what it means to develop research relationships through food. Challenging colonial, heteropatriarchal, and methodological divisions between academic and less formal ways of knowing, Recipes as Reciprocity draws critical attention to the ways food can bridge disciplinary and lived experiences, propelling meaningful research and reciprocal relationships.

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Author:   Hannah Tait Neufeld ,  Elizabeth Finnis
Publisher:   University of Manitoba Press
Imprint:   University of Manitoba Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780887552915

ISBN 10:   0887552919
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   19 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Ch 1: Momo Parties: Crafting Dumplings, Knowledge, and Identity in the Field Ch 2: Poppycock and Puffed Rice: Recipe Knowledge in Thai Buddhist communities Ch 3: Drinking Tea in Napal Ch 4: Bannock: Using a Contested Bread to Understand Indigenous and Settler Relations and Ways Forward within Canada Ch 5: Evolution and Revolution: Haudenosaunee Histories and Stories of Sustenance and Survival Ch 6: Our Soup Tells Stories: Kitchen Table Conversations About the Connections, Creations and Traditions of Soup Sharing Ch 7: Making and Eating Chipa and Mbejú in Rural Paraguay Ch 8: Preparing Rice in Contemporary Japan Ch 9: Malawian Small Fry Ch 10: I Serve You and We Serve Each Other—Honouring the Reciprocity of Métis Relationships in Research

Reviews

Recipes and Reciprocity explores themes within the realm of food studies that are immensely important, offering a behind the curtain view of researchers' data collection and field experiences with food. This book challenges the divide between researchers' personal and professional selves that research and scholarship typically attempt to maintain through various means of policing what constitutes rigorous method, and what counts as knowledge. -Jennifer Brady, Acadia University

Author Information

Hannah Tait Neufeld is a nutritionist and Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo in the School of Public Health Sciences. Elizabeth Finnis is an anthropologist and Associate Professor at the University of Guelph.

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