Matters of Taste in Weyewa  

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Kuipers, Joel C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 35 no. 1/4 (1993), page 538-555.
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The primary goal of this paper is to demonstrate that taste is more than a matter of "personal dispute," but that it can be productively examined by linguistically oriented anthropologists by considering it in its cultural context. To do this, one must first distinguish between technical scientific definitions of taste and taste vocabulary, and nonspecialist, or folk usages of such categories and nomenclature. Second, one may separately consider the cultural significance of the taste stimuli, and the meanings and use of the taste vocabulary. Drawing on data collected while conducting ethnographic field- work among the Weyewa of the western highlands of Sumba, an island in eastern Indonesia, I show that taste substances are meaningfully ordered in the context of a social visit. I then demonstrate that the words for representing taste experiences are best understood not as merely tools for referring to discrete sensations, but as multifunctional signs which systematically fit into the context of use.

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