TY  - GEN
T1  - Eating together : food, friendship, and inequality
A1  - Julier, Alice P.
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn847950396
AB  - "Sharing and enjoying food together is a basic human expression of friendship, pleasure, and community, and in Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality, sociologist Alice P. Julier argues that the ways in which Americans eat together play a central role in social life in the United States. Focusing on the experiences of African American and non-ethnic white hosts and guests, she explores the concrete pleasures of cooking as well as the discourses of food and sociability that shape the experience of shared meals. Delving into a wide range of research, Julier analyzes etiquette and entertaining books from the past century and conducts interviews and observations of dozens of dinner parties, potlucks, and buffets. She finds that when people invite friends, neighbors, or family members to share meals within their households, social inequalities involving race, economics, and gender reveal themselves in interesting ways: relationships are defined, boundaries of intimacy or distance are set, and people find themselves either excluded or included. An insightful map of the landscape of social meals, Eating Together shows how and why people will go to considerable effort, even when resources are limited, to ensure that they continue to eat together with friends throughout their lifetimes."--Publisher's description.
OP  - 244
CN  - GT2850 .J85 2013eb
SN  - 9780252094880
SN  - 0252094883
SN  - 1299647995
SN  - 9781299647992
SN  - 0252037634
SN  - 9780252037634
SN  - 0252079183
SN  - 9780252079184
KW  - Food habits.
KW  - Dinners and dining.
KW  - Table etiquette.
KW  - Eating (Philosophy)
KW  - Social networks.
KW  - Feeding Behavior
KW  - Social Support
KW  - Habitudes alimentaires.
KW  - Savoir-vivre : Table.
KW  - Nourriture.
KW  - Réseaux sociaux.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Customs & Traditions.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - Dinners and dining
KW  - Food habits
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Table etiquette
ER  -