ALIMENTOS, PODER E IDENTIDAD EN LAS COMUNIDADES FENICIAS OCCIDENTALES

Abstract

In Western Phoenician settlements, foods, culinary traditions and material culture related to preparation and food and drinks consumption offer us a picture of colonial communities characterized by an important social and cultural heterogeneity. This picture contrasts with the representation constructed by the colonial elite by means of funerary rituals and commensality practices that were carried out next to their ancestors’ graves. In these ritual and social acts food, tableware used in these acts and consumption’s ways fade the social and ethnic heterogeneity of every day, because through this discourse is naturalized Phoenician domination and hegemony in these colonial spaces.