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Purity, soul food, and Sunni Islam: explorations at the intersection of consumption and resistance
Cultural anthropology • 19 (2) • Published In 2004 • Pages: 226-249
By: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, Hoskins, Janet.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the food taboos of African American sunni muslims. It focuses on structural and semiotic entanglements of food and African American social history during three different periods: before Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammed's death in 1975, during the rise of the African American Sunni movement 1975-2001, and after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. In analyzing these entanglements, the authors argue that physical acts such as eating can give a cultural form to the principles governing objective orders of power relations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Religious denominations
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- Diet
- Eating
- Religious experience
- Gender status
- Ethnic stratification
- Slavery
- Community structure
- Avoidance and taboo
- Political movements
- Priesthood
- Cultural identity and pride
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- African Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1993-1995
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1975-2001
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Carolyn Rouse, Janet Hoskins
- Includes biblopgraphical references (p. 247-249)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 0886007356
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans