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Biographical note
Annemarie Mol is Professor of Anthropology of the Body at the University of Amsterdam and author of Eating in Theory and The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice, both also published by Duke University Press.“To eat. <i>Comer</i>. <i>Lekker</i>. Tasty. <i>Schmecka</i>. <i>Gustar</i>. Don’t reach for your dictionary to find equivalencies. Instead, read and digest this engaging book to appreciate how different wording points to different worlding around food and eating! Annemarie Mol and her multilingual collaborators challenge us all to confront the analytical limits of English’s hegemony as ‘our’ academic language.”
- Heather Paxson, editor of, Eating beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and Bodies
“<i>Eating Is an English Word</i> offers a series of rich ethnographic contributions that challenge the implicit understanding of matters embedded in the English world: the body that eats; the enjoyment it brings; the practices and situations involved. At the same time, it illuminates significant assumptions related to linguistic and conceptual habits more broadly.”
- Margaret J. Wiener, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,