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| Eating and Giving Food: The Material Necessity of Interpretation Thai Buddhism | ||
| 作者 | Arnold, Philip P. (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Ritual Studies |
| 卷期 | v.14 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2000 |
| 頁次 | 6 - 22 |
| 出版者 | Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.pitt.edu/~strather/journal.htm |
| 出版地 | Pittsburgh, PA, US [匹茲堡, 賓夕法尼亞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | This paper explores the relationship between food and Theravada Buddhism in four distinctive settings. First I will attempt to forge an interpretive basis among the academics and intellectuals of Theravada which, second, might act as a window into Thai village Buddhist rites. Third, I will apply this view to the Trai Phum in the hope of making more general statements about the nature of the world and the importance of food to the Buddhists'(distinctivelythe Thai Buddhist) interactive view of material existence. Finally these strands come together around the central feature of sustenance. Taken as a whole this approximates a coherent religious view which integrates ritual, myth, doctrine, and folk beliefs with reference to eating and giving food. Uses and understandings of food are central to these four disparate religious settings. In conclusion, while food is generally seen as a material necessity it is also a necessary attribute of religious cosmology. Thus, following Levi-Strauss, religion concerns both material and ideological realities. Eating is a performative activity which complicates simple definitions of religion as ideology. As in other indigenous traditions, eating, and particularly giving food, is understood to be a life promoting activity rather than a moralistic or ideological enterprise. Thus, intellectual interpretive activity, tied to the acquisition and distribution of food, is a necessarily cultural attribute in perpetuating human life. |
| 目次 | I 7 II 10 III 15 IV 18 Endnotes 19 References 21 |
| ISSN | 08901112 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 128 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.10.06 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.10.06 |
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