Cover
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Foreword / John Hartigan Jr.
Introduction: Yearning and Tending amid Change / Virginia D. Nazarea and Terese V. Gagnon
PARTI. ITINERARIES
1. Affective Ecologies: Karen-Plant Companionships across Borders / Terese V. Gagnon
2. The Body as Threshold: Altars, Memory, and Movement in the Persian New Year Celebration of Nowrooz / Aida Curtis
3. People and Foods in Motion: Agricultural Dislocations and Culinary Remembrances in Bihar, India / Hayden S. Kantor
4. Tomatoes Out of Time: Multispecies Biopolitics and Multiethnic Socialities in Postsocialist Europe / Guntra A. Aistara
5. Mead Circles as Roving Sanctuaries of Celebration, Communion, and Learning / James R. Veteto and Marc N. Williams
PART II. SANCTUARIES
6. Revivifying Commensality: Eating, Politics, and the Sensory Production of the Social / David Sutton
7. The Tale of Cathead Biscuits: An Ethnobiography / Taylor Hosmer
8. Terms of Endurance: Conservation of Traditional Varieties in Pampanga Rice Fields, Kitchens, and Senses / Melanie Narciso
9. Havens against the Blight: Daydreaming Agriculture in the Future Past / Tracey Heatherington
10. Red Ripe and Fried Green: The Work of Tomatoes in Tomato Festivals across the Southeast / Emily F. Ramsey
11. Ontologies of Return: Terms of Endearment and Entanglements / Virginia D. Nazarea
Epilogue. On Ethnotheory: Not Forgetting Other Peoples’ Ideas about the World / Krishnendu Ray
Contributors
Index