EL CONSUMO DE ALIMENTO COMO ESTRATEGIA SOCIAL: RECETAS PARA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE LA MEMORIA Y LA CREACIÓN DE IDENTIDADES

Abstract

Food consumption is a cultural construction used constantly in order to generate, legitimate and re-enact  power and authority, to build social relationships  and to transmit  technological, social and ideological knowledge. In the following pages we will analyse first, the importance of food consumption for our bodies and, secondly, its potential in the construction of individual  identities, and its ritual use as a way to create memories  that maintain determinate social  structures  though  the  creation  of communal  identities.