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Dissemination of research

Publications

  • 2009. The Meaning of Culture-specific Food: Rice and its Webs of Significance in Sri Lanka. In. Dynamic Foods: The Production of Culture through Agricultural Change. Omertaa, Online Journal for Applied Anthropology. Electronic document
  • 2009. Editor theme issue. Dynamic Foods: The Production of Culture through Agricultural Change. Omertaa, Online Journal for Applied Anthropology. Electronic document.

Publications in progress

  • Igniting assemblages: Ritual cooking and ‘cooking’ of life-sustenance and relationality in the regeneration of the world
  • ‘Cooking’ life: Sustenance and relationality in Sri Lanka

Presentations

  • 02-12-2009 Post-fieldwork seminar presentation SOAS: Experiencing the Taste of Existence: Food as a Mediator of Social Changes and Contestations.
  • 07-06-2010 Lecture at the University of Colombo: Experiencing the Taste of Existence: Food as an integrative bio-social co-(re)production, constituted by two dynamics, precarious life-sustenance and fragile relationality, cutting across the spheres of the cook pot and cookbook.
  • 22-10-2010 Lecture at the SOAS Food Forum: The dynamics of precarious life-sustenance and fragile relationality in food throughout the spheres of the everyday, ritual, and activism.
  • 19-11-2010 Presentation at the Annual meeting of the American Anthropologist Association in New Orleans: Moving in-between the village and the globe: the interconnecting positioning of a Sri Lankan social movement.