FOOD FOR THOUGHT: ON PRACTICES, TASTES AND FOOD SYSTEMS FROM A SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH

Authors

  • Helisa Canfield de Castro Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social
  • Maria Eunice Maciel Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Sul Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2013.6648

Abstract

This communication is situated in the field of food anthropology and aims to discuss aspects of the act of eating from the cultural point of view. The research will raise some practical considerations about cooking or eating while mobilizing the marking of meanings and identities. Understood as a unifying field of study on food culture, anthropology has contributed to the reflection and understanding of the food phenomenon in analyzes that incorporate representations, beliefs, knowledge and practices that are inherited and/or learned and that are shared by individuals of a given culture or a particular social group. We will approach the notion of food system as a broad proposal capable of bringing different disciplines into an understanding of the food phenomenon as endowed with complexity and able to grasp the dynamics involved in contemporary living, where there is a clear cultural heterogeneity.

Author Biographies

Helisa Canfield de Castro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social

Nutricionista -Mestranda do Programa de  Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social da UFRGS

 

Maria Eunice Maciel, Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Sul Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social

Doutora em Antropologia Social

Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social

Depto de Antropologia - Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Sul

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Published

2013-09-11

How to Cite

Castro, H. C. de, & Maciel, M. E. (2013). FOOD FOR THOUGHT: ON PRACTICES, TASTES AND FOOD SYSTEMS FROM A SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH. DEMETRA: Food, Nutrition & Health, 8, 321–328. https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2013.6648

Issue

Vol. 8 (2013): SUPLEMENTO TEMÁTICO "CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS E SOCIAIS EM ALIMENTAÇÃO E NUTRIÇÃO"

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