Commensality From Everyday Food To Feast

Author : Susanne Kerner,Cynthia Chou,Morten Warmind
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857857194

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Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast by Susanne Kerner,Cynthia Chou,Morten Warmind Pdf

Throughout time and in every culture, human beings have eaten together. Commensality - eating and drinking at the same table - is a fundamental social activity, which creates and cements relationships. It also sets boundaries, including or excluding people according to a set of criteria defined by the society. Particular scholarly attention has been paid to banquets and feasts, often hosted for religious, ritualistic or political purposes, but few studies have considered everyday commensality. Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast offers an insight into this social practice in all its forms, from the most basic and mundane meals to the grandest occasions. Bringing together insights from anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, this volume offers a vast historical scope, ranging from the Late Neolithic period (6th millennium BC), through the Middle Ages, to the present day. The sixteen chapters include case studies from across the world, including the USA, Bolivia, China, Southeast Asia, Iran, Turkey, Portugal, Denmark and the UK. Connecting these diverse analyses is an understanding of commensality's role as a social and political tool, integral to the formation of personal and national identities. From first experiences of commensality in the sharing of food between a mother and child, to the inaugural dinner of the American president, this collection of essays celebrates the variety of human life and society.

Author : Susanne Kerner,Cynthia Chou,Morten Warmind
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857857293

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Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast by Susanne Kerner,Cynthia Chou,Morten Warmind Pdf

Throughout time and in every culture, human beings have eaten together. Commensality - eating and drinking at the same table - is a fundamental social activity, which creates and cements relationships. It also sets boundaries, including or excluding people according to a set of criteria defined by the society. Particular scholarly attention has been paid to banquets and feasts, often hosted for religious, ritualistic or political purposes, but few studies have considered everyday commensality. Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast offers an insight into this social practice in all its forms, from the most basic and mundane meals to the grandest occasions. Bringing together insights from anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, this volume offers a vast historical scope, ranging from the Late Neolithic period (6th millennium BC), through the Middle Ages, to the present day. The sixteen chapters include case studies from across the world, including the USA, Bolivia, China, Southeast Asia, Iran, Turkey, Portugal, Denmark and the UK. Connecting these diverse analyses is an understanding of commensality's role as a social and political tool, integral to the formation of personal and national identities. From first experiences of commensality in the sharing of food between a mother and child, to the inaugural dinner of the American president, this collection of essays celebrates the variety of human life and society.

Author : Cynthia Chou,Susanne Kerner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030843717

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Food, Social Change and Identity by Cynthia Chou,Susanne Kerner Pdf

Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the following questions: What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening? What triggers change and how are the changes impacting identity politics? In terms of scope and organization, this book offers a vast historical extent ranging from the 5th mill BCE to the present day. In addition, it presents case studies from across the world, including Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and America. Finally, this collection of essays presents diverse perspectives and differing methodologies. It is an accessible introduction to the study of food, social change and identity.

Author : Susan Pollock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 398167510X

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Between Feasts and Daily Meals by Susan Pollock Pdf

Author : Kathleen C. Riley,Amy L. Paugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317442332

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Food and Language by Kathleen C. Riley,Amy L. Paugh Pdf

Food and Language: Discourses and Foodways across Cultures explores in innovative ways how food and language are intertwined across cultures and social settings. How do we talk about food? How do we interact in its presence? How do we use food to communicate? And how does social interaction feed us? The book assumes no previous linguistic or anthropological knowledge but provides readers with the understanding to pursue further research on the subject. With a full glossary at the end of the book and additional tools hosted on an eResources page (such as recommended web and video links and some suggested research exercises), this book serves as an ideal introduction for courses on food, language, and food-and-language in anthropology departments, linguistics departments, and across the humanities and social sciences. It will also appeal to any reader interested in the semiotic interplay between food and language.

Author : Brandi Simpson Miller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030884031

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Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana by Brandi Simpson Miller Pdf

This book investigates how cooking, eating, and identity are connected to the local micro-climates in each of Ghana’s major eco-culinary zones. The work is based on several years of researching Ghanaian culinary history and cuisine, including field work, archival research, and interdisciplinary investigation. The political economy of Ghana is used as an analytical framework with which to investigate the following questions: How are traditional food production structures in Ghana coping with global capitalist production, distribution, and consumption? How do land, climate, and weather structure or provide the foundation for food consumption and how does that affect the separate traditional and capitalist production sectors? Despite the post WWII food fight that launched Ghana’s bid for independence from the British empire, Ghana’s story demonstrates the centrality of local foods and cooking to its national character. The cultural weight of regional traditional foods, their power to satisfy, and the overall collective social emphasis on the ‘proper’ meal, have persisted in Ghana, irrespective of centuries of trade with Europeans. This book will be of interest to scholars in food studies, comparative studies, and African studies, and is sure to capture the interest of students in new ways.

Author : Gillian Crowther
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487593315

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Eating Culture by Gillian Crowther Pdf

From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture. The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions about nomadism, commercializing food, food security, and ethical consumption, including treatment of animals and the long-term environmental and health consequences of meat consumption. New feature boxes offer case studies and exercises to help highlight anthropological methods and approaches, and each chapter includes a further reading section. By considering the concept of cuisine and public discourse, Eating Culture brings order and insight to our changing relationship with food.

Author : Francesc Fusté-Forné,Erik Wolf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000843262

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Contemporary Advances in Food Tourism Management and Marketing by Francesc Fusté-Forné,Erik Wolf Pdf

This comprehensive, multidisciplinary and expert-led book provides insight into the most current and insightful topics within food and beverage tourism practice and research, elaborated by leading researchers and practitioners in the field. The relationships between food and tourism have not only been at the core of recent tourism experiences, but they are expected to be crucial in the transformation of tourism futures. International in approach, this book analyzes the food tourism phenomenon from supply and demand perspectives, from health and politics to high-touch and high-tech, and brings together the relevant issues that inform these contemporary advances in food tourism research and practice. Providing a holistic approach to recent and future trends, the book is divided into 16 carefully selected and specially commissioned chapters that discuss the significance of food tourism research, the management and marketing of contemporary food and beverage experiences, the role of responsibility in the production and consumption of food tourism, and the anticipation of future trends in food and beverage tourism. This volume combines academic research with practitioner experience, allowing the authors to explore, debate and analyze our industry’s future challenges and solutions. This book is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in food tourism, as well as practitioners.

Author : Virginia D. Nazarea,Terese Gagnon
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816542215

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Moveable Gardens by Virginia D. Nazarea,Terese Gagnon Pdf

Moveable Gardens explores the ways people make sanctuaries with plants and other traveling companions in the midst of ongoing displacement in today's world. This volume addresses how the destruction of homelands, fragmentation of habitats, and post-capitalist conditions of modernity are countered by the remembrance of tradition and the migration of seeds, which are embodied in gardening, cooking, and community building.

Author : Janet Chrzan,Kima Cargill
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231549806

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Anxious Eaters by Janet Chrzan,Kima Cargill Pdf

What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? How did there get to be so many different ones, often with eerily similar prescriptions? Why do people cycle on and off diets, perpetually searching for that one simple trick that will solve everything? And how did these fads become so central to conversations about food and nutrition? Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs—which is also why they tend to fail. Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill bring together anthropology, psychology, and nutrition to explore what these programs promise yet rarely fulfill for dieters. They demonstrate how fad diets help people cope with widespread anxieties and offer tantalizing glimpses of attainable self-transformation. Chrzan and Cargill emphasize the social contexts of diets, arguing that beliefs about nutrition are deeply rooted in pervasive cultural narratives. Although people choose to adopt new eating habits for individual reasons, broader forces shape why fad diets seem to make sense. Considering dietary beliefs and practices in terms of culture, nutrition, and individual psychological needs, Anxious Eaters refrains from moralizing or promoting a “right” way to eat. Instead, it offers new ways of understanding the popularity of a wide range of eating trends, including the Atkins Diet and other low- or no-carb diets; beliefs that ingredients like wheat products and sugars are toxic, allergenic, or addictive; food avoidance and “Clean Eating” practices; and paleo or primal diets. Anxious Eaters sheds new light on why people adopt such diets and why these diets remain so attractive even though they often fail.

Author : Jon Keune
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197574836

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Shared Devotion, Shared Food by Jon Keune Pdf

"This book is about the deceptively simple question: when Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting social equality? This the modern formulation of the bhakti-caste question. It is what Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar had in mind when he concluded that the saints promoted spiritual equality but did not transform society. While taking Ambedkar's judgment seriously, when viewed in the context of intellectual history and social practice, the bhakti-caste question is more complex. This book dives deeply in Marathi sources to explore how one tradition in western India worked out the relationship between bhakti and caste on its own terms. Food and eating together were central to this. As stories about saints and food changed while moving across manuscripts, theatrical plays, and films, the bhakti-caste relationship went from being a strategically ambiguous riddle to a question that expected-and received-answers. Shared Devotion, Shared Food demonstrates the value of critical commensality to understand how people carefully negotiate their ethical ideals with social practices. Food's capacity to symbolize many things made it made an ideal site for debating bhakti's implications about caste differences. In the Vārkarītradition, strategically deployed ambiguity and the resonating of stories across media over time developed an ideology of inclusive difference-not social equality in the modern sense, but an alternative holistic view of society"--

Author : Justin Nordstrom
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610757508

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The Provisions of War by Justin Nordstrom Pdf

The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Historians as well as scholars of literature, regional studies, and religious studies problematize traditional geographic boundaries and periodization in this essay collection, analyzing various conflicts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a foodways lens to reveal new insights about the parameters of armed interactions. The subjects covered are as varied and inclusive as the perspectives offered—ranging from topics like military logistics and animal disease in colonial Africa, Indian vegetarian identity, and food in the counterinsurgency of the Malayan Emergency, to investigations of hunger in Egypt after World War I and American soldiers’ role in the making of US–Mexico borderlands. Taken together, the essays here demonstrate the role of food in shaping prewar political debates and postwar realities, revealing how dietary adjustments brought on by military campaigns reshape national and individual foodways and identities long after the cessation of hostilities

Author : Tamas Lestar,Manuela Manuela Pilato,Hugues Seraphin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781003817307

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Eating Together in the Twenty-first Century by Tamas Lestar,Manuela Manuela Pilato,Hugues Seraphin Pdf

This book presents theoretical and empirical insights on communal food and dining practices which challenge the less sustainable and often solitary lifestyles encouraged by a social system based on unlimited growth.

Author : Biju Thomas,Allen Lim
Publisher : VeloPress
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781937716707

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Feed Zone Table by Biju Thomas,Allen Lim Pdf

In their third cookbook, Feed Zone Table, chef Biju Thomas and Dr. Allen Lim offer over 100 all-new recipes to bring friends and family to the table in a way that nourishes life and sport. Feed Zone Table will inspire your family-style dinners with a delicious line up of drinks, starters, main courses, side dishes, fresh sauces, and desserts. Biju rolls out easy techniques for making flavorful food that’s fun to prepare and share. Enjoying dinnertime and eating well will nourish you, your family and friends--and your sports performance. Science shows it’s not just what we eat that matters; eating together matters, too. Dr. Lim saw these benefits first-hand while working with professional athletes and shares new research on how social meals benefit everyone. Lim reveals why it matters--what science has to say about food, camaraderie, performance, and the pivotal role that the dinner table can play in an athlete’s preparation. Sports are often an escape from life, but Feed Zone Table is a warm invitation back to the table. We perform best when we nourish our bodies and feed our souls. Bring great food and people together with Feed Zone Table and you’ll feel the difference. Feed Zone Table brings over 100 new recipes to the popular Feed Zone series which includes The Feed Zone Cookbook and Feed Zone Portables. Included in the new Feed Zone Table: The Science Behind Social Meals 30+ Drinks, Starters, Sides, Salads, and Soups 35+ Poultry, Seafood, Pork, Beef, Lamb, and Bison Dishes 6 Meatless Dishes 40+ Sweets, Oils & Dressings, Sauces & Spices 15+ New Cooking Techniques Quick & Recipes, Nutrition Facts, Index

Author : Opinderjit Kaur Takhar,Doris R. Jakobsh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000847352

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Global Sikhs by Opinderjit Kaur Takhar,Doris R. Jakobsh Pdf

This book brings a broad, holistic approach to the study of the phenomena of the global Sikh community referred to collectively as the Panth. With contributions by an interdisciplinary range of experts, the volume provides insight into current debates and discussions around Sikh identity in the twenty-first century. It examines the terms Sikh, Sikhism and ‘Sikhi’ and considers how those ‘outside of the margins’ fit into larger definitions of the wider Panth. Both the secular and religious dimensions of being a Sikh are explored and lived experience is a central theme throughout. The chapters engage with issues of authority and diversity as well as representation as Sikhs become increasingly settled and active within their diasporic locales. The book includes a variety of case studies and makes a valuable contribution to the growing field of Sikh studies.