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Inviting happiness : food sharing in post-communist Mongolia / text revised and expanded by Sandrine Ruhlmann ; translated from the French by Nora Scott

Ruhlmann, Sandrine, 1977- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 288 Seiten) : Illustrationen

Englisch (Sprache des Originals: Französisch)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Inviting happiness / Ruhlmann, Sandrine (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-90-04-41063-3 ; 90-04-41063-5

978-90-04-40965-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1176174452     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1163/9789004410633

GT2853.M65

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bicssc: HBJF ; bisacsh: HIS 003000 ; bisacsh: HIS 026000

LOC-SH: Food habits -- Social aspects -- Mongolia ; Food consumption -- Social aspects -- Mongolia ; Sharing -- Mongolia ; Mongolia -- Social life and customs

Food consumption ; Social aspects ; Food habits ; Social aspects ; Manners and customs ; Sharing ; Mongolia

"For Mongols, sharing food is more than just eating meals. Through a process of "opening" and "closing", on a daily basis or at events, in the family circle or with visitors, sharing food guarantees the proper order of social relations. It also ensures the course of the seasons and the cycle of human life. Through food sharing, humans thus invite happiness to their families and herds. Sandrine Ruhlmann has lived long months, since 2000, in the Mongolian steppe and in the city. She describes and analyzes in detail the contemporary food system and recognizes intertwined ideas and values inherited from shamanism, Buddhism and communist ideology. Through meat-on-the-bone, creamy milk skin, dumplings or sole-shaped cakes, she highlights a whole way of thinking and living"--