LEC 3 - Lossifides

Question 1

Lossifides - title =

Answer 1

Bread, Meat and Wine - commensality something something

Question 2

Lossifides - food involves ritual even in the -

Answer 2

mundane

Question 3

Lossifides - food enlivens a social -

Answer 3

memory

Question 4

Lossifides - frugality has more of a ___ function than a ___ one

Answer 4

more social than economic

Question 5

Lossifides - men compete to be more picky about wives’ cooking, while wives -

Answer 5

• infantilize the men

Question 6

Lossifides - rich people are called “the hungry” because -

Answer 6

their money is in the bank and they are frugal

Question 7

Lossifides - when food also predicts future events, it is called -

Answer 7

“perspective memory”

Question 8

Lossifides - food placed near body to suggest -

Answer 8

person never stops giving - same as ritual cannibalism

Question 9

Lossifides - food not a good reminder of the dead because food decays, so in Melanesia -

Answer 9

• shells are preferred

Question 10

Lossifides - in Melanesia, the body eaten of is said to have “new roots”, indicating -

Answer 10

• body as a tuber, which is a “masculine” plant, implying patriarchal

Question 11

Lossofides - meat in the village vs. meat in the -

Answer 11

convent