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Civilizing Tastes: From Caste to Class in South Indian Foodways

  • Staples J
Palgrave Macmillan UK, (2014), 65-86
DOI: 10.1057/9781137326416_4
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Abstract

Anthropologists have long recognized that rules and practices concerning food and caste in India are closely intertwined. The ritually highest ranking Hindu castes are characterized as protecting their purity by accepting cooked (or kacca) food from no one of lower...

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Staples, J. (2014). Civilizing Tastes: From Caste to Class in South Indian Foodways. In Food Consumption in Global Perspective (pp. 65–86). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137326416_4

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