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The Gut Elizabeth Perez (University of California, Santa Barbara)

The Gut By Elizabeth Perez (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Summary

This Element examines gut feelings, knowledge, and beings in the belly; African precedents for the Afro-Diasporic gut-brain axis; post-sacrificial offerings; and the strong stomachs and intestinal fortitude of religious ancestors. It concludes with a reflection on kinship and the spilling of guts in kitchenspaces.

The Gut Summary

The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract by Elizabeth Perez (University of California, Santa Barbara)

If the head is religion, the gut is magic. Taking up this provocation, this Element delves into the digestive system within transnational Afro-Diasporic religions such as Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candomble, and Cuban Lucumi (also called Santeria). It draws from the ethnographic and archival record to probe the abdomen as a vital zone of sensory perception, amplified in countless divination verses, myths, rituals, and recipes for ethnomedical remedies. Provincializing the brain as only one locus of reason, it seeks to expand the notion of 'mind' and expose the anti-Blackness that still prevents Black Atlantic knowledges from being accepted as such. The Element examines gut feelings, knowledge, and beings in the belly; African precedents for the Afro-Diasporic gut-brain axis; post-sacrificial offerings in racist fantasy and everyday reality; and the strong stomachs and intestinal fortitude of religious ancestors. It concludes with a reflection on kinship and the spilling of guts in kitchenspaces.

Table of Contents

1. Gut feelings; 2. Gut beings; 3. Gut history; 4. Gut delicacy; 5. Strong stomachs 6. Intestinal fortitude; 7. Spilling (your) guts; Bibliography.

Additional information

NPB9781009013475
9781009013475
1009013475
The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract by Elizabeth Perez (University of California, Santa Barbara)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2023-01-05
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