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Accepted Paper:
The anthropology of food in more-than-human Pech worlds
Juan Mejia
(University College London)
I examine the possibility of an anthropology of food beyond the human through ethnographic engagement with indigenous socio-cosmologies premised on a 'logic of substance'.
Paper Abstract:
In this paper I examine the possibility of an anthropology of food beyond the human through ethnographic engagement with indigenous socio-cosmologies. In the indigenous Pech village of Moradel, Honduras, bodies and subjectivities are neither genetically predetermined, nor stable, but the result of deliberate acts of feeding and commensality in a highly transformational world. By exploring food not only as a semiotic device, but as a central element of a sensory ecology it is possible to envision new avenues for an anthropology of food attuned to the Anthropocene.