Food and disharmony: Commensality among Jews

Mars, Leonard

doi:10.1080/07409710.1997.9962064

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“…Sin embargo, también puede ser considerada como una función social primaria, ya que procurar el alimento implica también reciprocidad y redistribución 12 , por lo que la comida es mucho más que el solo hecho de ingerir alimentos. Comer con otros es una acción que refleja estructuras y la morfología de lo social [21][22][23] , lo que a su vez, da cuenta de valores culturales y de estructuras individuales 15 . La comida familiar aparece como el evento alimentario compartido por excelencia, siendo considerada un barómetro de bienestar familiar y el epítome de la comida colectiva 19 .…”

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La comida en familia: La idealización de un evento social

Riquelme

Giacoman

2018

Rev. chil. nutr.

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Faced with alarming obesity figures, various public health strategies that aim to change the habits of people and combat obesity have been implemented. One strategy has been promoting family meals. However, various studies question the benefits associated with this strategy. This article presents a review of the literature investigating the family meal. We present three primary perspectives: those that emphasize function, those that discuss social structure and articles that consider the family meal as a result of lifestyle. In this review of the main theoretical guidelines, we argue that the family meal is an idealized institution, a discussion that seeks to contribute to the debate of future health interventions that aim to change people's health habits.

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La comida en familia: La idealización de un evento social

Riquelme

Giacoman

2018

Rev. chil. nutr.

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“…Various studies have documented commensal forms and ‘crystallized social relations’ (Julier, 2013: 12) shaped by social structures and institutions within a specific group (Bataille-Benguigui & Cousin, 1996; Bloch, 1999; Flandrin & Cobbi, 1999; Julier, 2013; Kerner et al, 2015; Mars, 1997). Less attention has been directed at the cross-cultural analysis of commensal practices using qualitative methods.…”

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A cross-cultural approach to eating together: Practices of commensality among French, German and Spanish young adults

Danesi

2017

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This article explores commensal practices of French, German and Spanish young adults. In doing so, it aims to fill a gap in research on commensality and on contemporary eating practices in Europe within a qualitative cross-cultural approach. The different nationalities of the informants, along with their country of residence, contribute to emphasizing cultural diversity and laying the foundations for the highlighting of poignant differences between French, German and Spanish young people, particularly in relation to meal times and content, places of food sociability, social organization surrounding shared meals and the role of food sharing in their social life. These aspects reveal different social meanings attached to food and commensality, as well as variability of commensal forms between young people living in or coming from different European countries.

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“…It is not that you will enjoy your food. He's thinking about his family … Commensality is the social experience of sharing meals with others (Mars 1997;Morrison 1996;Sobal and Nelson 2003) and it framed every cook's description of comiendo bien. Before migrating to the United States, participants described consuming meals commensally, among family, friends, or co-workers.…”

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Comiendo Bien: The Production of Latinidad through the Performance of Healthy Eating among Latino Immigrant Families in San Francisco

Martínez

2016

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Utilizing a bricolage of interactionist cultural studies, ethnic foodways, and situational analysis this paper examines how Latino immigrants, representing six countries and multiple preimmigration class positions, come to perform Latinidad through the lay health practice of comiendo bien (eating well). Comiendo bien was examined through participant observation of 15 families living in San Francisco and 27 key informant interviews. Comiendo bien is a performance that exists through the convergence of multiple identity positions. Latina/o immigrants not only enact the Latinidad in the United States through artistic expression or political strategizing, but also by sharing an idealized practice of healthy eating.

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Food and disharmony: Commensality among Jews

Cited by 15 publications

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La comida en familia: La idealización de un evento social

La comida en familia: La idealización de un evento social

A cross-cultural approach to eating together: Practices of commensality among French, German and Spanish young adults

Comiendo Bien: The Production of Latinidad through the Performance of Healthy Eating among Latino Immigrant Families in San Francisco

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