Eating Is an English Word

by Annemarie Mol

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478026626
• ISBN13: 9781478026624
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"