Comparing commensality: Festive eating occasions among French, German and Spanish young adults
This essay explores festive eating occasions among French, German and Spanish young adults. It draws from in-depth interviews with 83 young adults of these three nationalities living in one of these countries, as well as participant, direct and ‘floating’ observation of their eating events in Lyon,...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:aof_7708 https://doi.org/10.4000/aof.7708 urn:doi:10.4000/aof.7708 https://journals.openedition.org/aof/7708 2014-12-27T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9v01 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Comparing commensality: Festive eating occasions among French, German and Spanish young adults Anthropology of food Anthropology of Food Webjournal info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1609-9168 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/aof Danesi, Giada commensalité pratiques partage alimentaire jeune adulte ethnographie comparaison commensality practices food sharing young adult ethnography comparison This essay explores festive eating occasions among French, German and Spanish young adults. It draws from in-depth interviews with 83 young adults of these three nationalities living in one of these countries, as well as participant, direct and ‘floating’ observation of their eating events in Lyon, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, and Madrid. The paper sheds light on commonalities and differences between their festive forms of commensality in relationship with their position in the life course, their generation, nationality, and the local contexts in which their practices, and more broadly, their lives take place. Festive commensality in the framework of cross-cultural research emerges as a key and critical notion for comparing eating arrangements and systems. The focus on commensal practices of a specific and crucial age group has made it possible to take a life course perspective to cross-national research in this study, which opens up an interesting way of conveying dynamism in comparison of food-related practices. Cet essai explore les occasions alimentaires festives chez des jeunes adultes français, allemands et espagnols. Il s’appuie sur des entretiens approfondis avec 83 jeunes adultes de ces trois nationalités vivant dans l’un de ces trois pays, ainsi que sur l’observation participante, directe et ‘ flottante ’ de leurs prises alimentaires à Lyon, Paris, Berlin, Barcelone et Madrid. Cet article met en évidence les similarités et les différences entre leurs formes de commensalité festive en relation à leur position dans le cycle de vie, leur génération, leur nationalité et aux contextes locaux dans lesquels leurs pratiques et, plus généralement, leurs vies se déroulent. La commensalité festive dans le cadre d’une recherche inter/transculturelle apparaît comme une notion clé et critique pour la comparaison d’arrangements et de systèmes alimentaires. Le choix de se centrer sur les pratiques commensales d’une classe d’âge spécifique et cruciale a permis d’intégrer la perspective du cycle de vie dans cette recherche inter/transnationale et ouvre des pistes intéressantes pour une approche plus dynamique de la comparaison des pratiques alimentaires et culinaires. |
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This essay explores festive eating occasions among French, German and Spanish young adults. It draws from in-depth interviews with 83 young adults of these three nationalities living in one of these countries, as well as participant, direct and ‘floating’ observation of their eating events in Lyon, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, and Madrid. The paper sheds light on commonalities and differences between their festive forms of commensality in relationship with their position in the life course, their generation, nationality, and the local contexts in which their practices, and more broadly, their lives take place. Festive commensality in the framework of cross-cultural research emerges as a key and critical notion for comparing eating arrangements and systems. The focus on commensal practices of a specific and crucial age group has made it possible to take a life course perspective to cross-national research in this study, which opens up an interesting way of conveying dynamism in comparison of food-related practices. |
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Danesi, Giada |
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Comparing commensality: Festive eating occasions among French, German and Spanish young adults |
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