Book
Cajun foodways
University Press of Mississippi • Jackson, Miss. • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Gutierrez, C. Paige.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
'Cajun Foodways' is about the relationship between Cajun food and ethnic identity. It describes and interprets the symbolic aspects of Cajun ethnic foodways, based on Gutierrez's field research in Louisiana, and written from the perspective of folklore studies and cultural anthropology (p. xi). The introductory portion of this work is an overview of Cajun history, followed by a discussion of Cajun ethnic identity ca. 1980. Chapters 1-3 present a general description of Cajun food and cooking, with a directed focus in chapters 4-6 on the crawfish, not only as a food, but also as a symbol. The final chapters of this book (chapters 7-8) apply the insights gathered through the analysis of the crawfish data to other Cajun foodways.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History and culture change
- Total culture
- Food quest
- Food preparation
- Gratification and control of hunger
- Diet
- Eating
- Rest days and holidays
- Spectacles
- Visiting and hospitality
- Ideas about nature and people
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cajuns
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Folklorist
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle, 1993
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1983 (p.xii)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Breaux Bridge (St. Martin Parish), Lafayette (Lafayette Parish), and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- C. Paige Gutierrez
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92009963
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cajuns