"Cooking" Life: An Anthropologist Blends in with Everyday Sustenance and Relationality in Sri Lanka Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Food collaborates in the crafting of everyday lives, enabling transformations in intimate relationships as well as in larger socio-economic relationships and arrangements. The actual cooking and sharing of food substantiate and materialize the allegorical "cooking" of life as relational. Here, I explore the pervasiveness and agency of food by accounting for the way its cooking and sharing mediated my insertion in my fieldwork site. More ...