The significance of commensality, which will continue to be with us into the future, is that it is not just the significance of eating together; it is the expression of the value of hospitality, of expressing care and love or of valuing a relationship. This institution of hospitality has helped in human social evolution in organizing and maintaining social relations beyond the domestic unit or a small human group. It continues to be useful for organizing social relations in this even more globalized and cosmopolitan world. Commensality understood this way is a way of inclusion in a human world that is differentiated by ethnicity, and nationality, religion, and class. Anthropologists inspired by Claude Levi-Strauss have since long paid attention to the function of marriage in promoting alli... (查看原文)
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Commensality and the Organization of Social Relations， 陈志明， P. 13-30
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