By Christopher E. Forth
"Fat". In modern society the be aware by no means fails to elicit robust feelings, specially because it pertains to physically future health and visual appeal. yet fats is a noun in addition to an adjective and has a cultural existence open air of its courting with the human physique. via concentrating on the advanced actual and experiential dimensions of this complicated substance, Fat: tradition and Materiality breaks new floor within the examine of the connection among tradition and the cloth international.
With contributions from well-respected overseas students, this cutting edge and interdisciplinary assortment will attract quite a lot of readers drawn to fats and its courting to tradition, materiality and lived adventure. the amount addresses the function of fat in a number of cultural settings. subject matters comprise the politics of Palestinian olive oil; the attract of pig fats in background beef; the cloth assets of fats stereotypes in classical and biblical texts; using harvested fats in aesthetic surgical procedure; and the prestige of fats within the self-narratives of anorexics.
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The fatty acids in certain foods, for instance, have been shown to alter moods, decreasing sadness and promoting a sense of well-being implied in the notion of “comfort foods” (Oudenhove et al. 2011). Arguing from a vital materialist theoretical position, Jane Bennett (2010: 41) takes this emphasis on the tendencies of fats a step further to remind us that “certain lipids promote particular human moods or affective states,” with effects ranging from a reduction in violence among prisoners and learning improvements among certain schoolchildren to diminished memory (at least in laboratory rats).
Sometimes people brought oil even if they had not made a vow, as “[i]t [the gift without a request] is believed [to] please the saint, who favours the giver” (145). Although most people at that time may not have been able to afford it, “animal sacrifice please[d] these holy men because so many of the poor are fed in their names” (172). One person’s offering to the saint became a collective good in an ethics of care that is social as well as individual. Improper behavior, like urinating in the shrine, could be punished.
This diversity of values arises from the materiality of this fat, which gives it a powerful semiotic potential. This chapter builds on my previous investigation of how the sensuous materiality of olive oil affords substrates for various potential meanings. As Webb Keane (2003) argues is the case with all material objects, olive oil bundles together a semiotic surplus of sensuous qualities. In any given case, some of these qualisigns become meaning and belong to the object’s life as a sign, and others remain mute and belong to the object’s life as a thing but retain a potential for mediating the career of the object as a sign or as a thing.