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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Commensality"”.
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Whatever Happened to Respect? Values and Change in a Southwest Ethiopian (Aari) Community
… requires shifting resources from kinship and commensality – which afford respect – to modern forms of wealth – which do not. In the second part of the thesis, I examine two responses to the decline of respect, both of which constitute attempts to revive a more respectful mode of sociality. I …
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„Er nokkuð glúten í þessu?“: Lífið með selíaksjúkdómnum á Íslandi
… þjóðfræðinnar svo sem borðhald/samkennd (e. commensality), jaðarástand (e. liminality), líkömnun (e. embodiment) og tilfinningar (e. emotions). Rannsóknin leiðir í ljós að einstaklingar með selíak upplifa sig töluvert utan samfélagsins og þurfa að takast á við ýmsar áskoranir í sínu daglega …
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What’s Good: Sharing Food and Meaning-Making Among Commensals
… lifetime in the context of food, meals, and commensality, this research applies a critical phenomenological lens to food-centered life histories centered on the life experiences of childhood, adulthood and the diffusion of food knowledge within a food centric community between individuals …
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Private supper/public feast: Gender, power, and nurture in Early Modern England
… and denies the possibility of truly egalitarian commensality. What's more, Shakespearean meal scenes contradict contemporary cultural practices by placing male characters in the traditionally female position of food providers. The places and processes of meals in Shakespeare's plays reveal …
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Houses without doors : diffusing domesticity in Die Bos
… boundaries. I examine changing patterns of commensality among some members of the population of Die Bos, showing how movement and labour were intimately linked with eating patterns. Here I show how the most effective way of describing these patterns is in terms of networks of informal …
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The Ritualisation of Political Power in Early Rus (10th-12th centuries)
… (and breaking) and association through commensality—dining and gift-giving—are examined in terms of historical context and the internal categorisation of associative acts in textual sources from Rus’. The final chapter builds on recent studies of ritualised warfare in early Rus’ and …
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Singing knowledge: aesthetics, authority and gender in Skyrian music (Greece)
… and to the social aesthetic of reciprocity and commensality that Skyrians identified as crucial to the highly local knowledge embedded in their musical forms. I consider “singing knowledge” across a range of performative sites, including Carnival, Greek Orthodox Christian liturgical chanting, …
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Ancestor Worship in the Middle Sicán Theocratic State
… ancestral tombs and hypothesizes that the commensality among the living and the dead during feasts there served not only to commemorate the inferred ancestors, but also to bring together people in different social tiers and to consolidate the highly stratified, multiethnic Middle Sicán …
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Pràctiques de consum ritual al curs inferior de l'Ebre (s. VII-VI ane).: Comensalitat, ideologia i canvi social.
Prácticas de consumo ritual en el curso inferior del Ebro (s. VII-VI ane). Comensalidad, ideología y cambio social. Este trabajo se centra en el estudio de las prácticas relacionales que explican el funcionamiento social de las comunidades del primer hierro en el curso inferior del Ebro (650-550 …
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Re-making collectives. A study of changes in the living environments of mainland Greece, 2500-2100 BCE
This thesis investigates changes in the material remains of settlement sites excavated in central and southern mainland Greece and dating from ca. 2500 to 2100 BCE (later Early Bronze II to Early Bronze III). The 23rd and 22nd centuries BCE have long been identified as a period of significant …
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Food and Religion in the English and Italian Reformations, c. 1560 - c. 1640
This thesis explores the relationship between food and religion in the European Reformations, through the comparative case studies of Protestant England and Catholic Italy, c. 1560 - c. 1640. It seeks to answer two broad interrelated questions: how did Protestants and Catholics understand food and …