KS400 Lecture 6: KS400J - Lesson 6
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Personal and communal views on odor, taste, texture, appearance, assumptions about health and safety, and estimations of worth and quality. Issues of identity and community, and resistance. Tastes and dislikes are culturally and socially informed, and also personalized. System of taste: a historically and culturally specific set of relationships between foods that define their values relative to each other (wilk, 16) Dislikes are as essential to creating identity, norms and the self as taste is. Dislike helps distinguish what to avoid and that which is socially inappropriate. Boundaries are marked by shared dislike as much as by shared taste. Distaste is central to distinguishing the self within consumer culture. Consumption simultaneously categorizes both the consumed and the consumer. Taboo: a socio-sacred regulation severely prohibiting a certain action or interaction with taboo materials, etc. , to the point of giving the taboo the power to define inclusion and exclusion from that society. From the polynesian, tabu or tapu (with many variations), meaning.
