Beyond Conviviality: Facets of eating together
Neuman, Nicklas and Jönsson, Håkan LU
(2023)
p.180-190
- Abstract
- The stability of the human tendency to eat in groups is remarkable. We find it to be valued and mostly desirable across geographical locations, cultures, and historical time periods. Yet, there is a great deal of variety in how the practice is expressed, how individuals experience it, and how the sharing of meals is understood culturally. This chapter focuses on three facets of eating together that deserve more attention in the literature: the biology of eating together; the differentiation and cohesion of eating together; and the performativity of eating together. It ends with a postulation about carefulness with normative claims about meals in company or in solitude.
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- author
- Neuman, Nicklas
and Jönsson, Håkan
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-12-18
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Eating Together in the Twenty-first Century : Social Challenges, Community Values, Individual Wellbeing - Social Challenges, Community Values, Individual Wellbeing
- editor
- Lestar, Tamas ; Pilato, Manuela and Séraphin, Hugues
- pages
- 11 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85180878516
- ISBN
- 9781032447698
- 9781003373896
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003373896-18
- project
- Meals in the Experience Economy - a study of the meal order in Swedish households
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- f70935fd-4dbd-43a2-be6f-3fcb881d0fdd
- date added to LUP
- 2023-12-22 14:24:17
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