Divine sustenance: Krishna Prasadam in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

dc.contributor.author	Berger, Nicole Catherine
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-09T19:24:14Z
dc.date.available	2016-03-09T19:24:14Z
dc.date.issued	2011-08
dc.description.abstract	This thesis is an ethnographic study of the role of prasadam--sanctified food that has been ritually offered to the god Krishna--among the Honolulu branch of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), popularly known as the Hare Krishnas. Taking prasadam as the starting point, this thesis broadens from an examination of the meaning-laden exchange and consumption of prasadam to the social, spiritual, and political dimensions of prasadam distribution and production. It traces the connections facilitated by prasadam both within and outside of Honolulu's ISKCON community, with a particular focus on the utopian image of self-sustaining farm communities in ISKCON ideology. The thesis contextualizes these issues within the framework of the politics of food, farming and land in Hawaiʻi, illustrating the way in which Honolulu's ISKCON community is located in the particular context of Honolulu, and the ways in this branch of a transnational religious organization is made local.
dc.description.degree	M.A.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/101515
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	University of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.relation	Theses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Anthropology.
dc.title	Divine sustenance: Krishna Prasadam in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
dc.type	Thesis
dc.type.dcmi	Text

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