Commensality

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Com`men`sal´i`ty

Fellowship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table.

commensality

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commensality

the act of eating together (literally ‘sharing the same table’); the social sharing of FOOD providing symbolic and social, as well as biological, sustenance. Both domestic and status relations are usually reflected in patterns of commensality, e.g. see CASTE. In more general terms, in a sense suggested by LÉVI-STRAUSS, ‘food is both good to eat and think’.

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