ABSTRACT
It is an ethnographic commonplace that food and sexual identity each may comprise richly fertile sources of metaphor for the other, a tropic potential that achieves exquisite proportions in areas such as the New Guinea highlands (e.g., Meigs 1984) and is perceptible if sometimes less apparently exotic in most cultures. Throughout the ethnographic region of lowland South America food and sexual identity similarly serve as two potentially productive codes, each “good to think” the other (e.g., Arcand 1978; Hugh-Jones 1978; Siskind 1973a: 88-129; Viveiros de Castro 1978; cf. Levi-Strauss 1966).
