fleshy traffic in/through things

Italian translation: viavai di cadaveri / corpi (morti) estranei nelle cose

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English term or phrase:fleshy traffic in/through things
Italian translation:viavai di cadaveri / corpi (morti) estranei nelle cose
Entered by: Mario Altare

07:55 Jul 22, 2016
English to Italian translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / Inquinamento alimentare
English term or phrase: fleshy traffic in/through things
XXX's use of the somewhat untranslatable word schifezze suggests that conventional food was thought to be ‘polluted’, in the sense that it contained matter that was out of place (Douglas, 1966).
In Italian, the expression ‘che schifo!’
(literally: how horrible!) is the almost formulaic verbalization of the sense of disgust.
It is usually uttered upon discovering that some culturally improper substance has entered your food, for example an insect, in societies that do not eat insects.
The expression is thus particularly revealing of the ‘** fleshy traffic in/through things **’ that characterizes foodstuffs for Stassart and Whatmore (2003:
450), which ‘resist and deflect human designs … stretching and folding the time-spaces of here and now, ‘us’ and ‘them’.’
Mario Altare
Local time: 07:39
viavai di cadaveri / corpi (morti) estranei nelle cose
Explanation:
come quelli degli insetti, appunto

è un po' forte come espressione, ma personalmente uso spesso la parola cadavere con chi non è vegetariano
un'alternativa: viavai di corpi (morti) estranei ...
ometterei "nelle cose" ma l'espressione è usata due volte nel tuo testo
viavai rende, secondo me, anche in/through
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martini
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Local time: 07:39
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Grazie mille (anche a Lisa) :-)
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Summary of answers provided
4passaggio di/traffico di tessuti estranei dentro/attraverso le cose
Lisa Jane
3 +1viavai di cadaveri / corpi (morti) estranei nelle cose
martini


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passaggio di/traffico di tessuti estranei dentro/attraverso le cose


Explanation:
The expression is thus particularly revealing of the ‘** fleshy traffic in/through things **’ that characterizes foodstuffs for Stassart and Whatmore (2003:
450), which ‘resist and deflect human designs … stretching and folding the time-spaces of here and now, ‘us’ and ‘them’.’

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il fleshy traffic allude ad esseri viventi ormai morti che per sbaglio si trovano nel cibo o lo hanno contaminato in qualche modo

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viavai di cadaveri / corpi (morti) estranei nelle cose


Explanation:
come quelli degli insetti, appunto

è un po' forte come espressione, ma personalmente uso spesso la parola cadavere con chi non è vegetariano
un'alternativa: viavai di corpi (morti) estranei ...
ometterei "nelle cose" ma l'espressione è usata due volte nel tuo testo
viavai rende, secondo me, anche in/through

martini
Italy
Local time: 07:39
Works in field
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 27
Grading comment
Grazie mille (anche a Lisa) :-)

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agree  zerlina: :-)))
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