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Author Campbell, Jodi, 1968- author.

Title At the first table : food and social identity in early modern Spain / Jodi Campbell
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Early modern cultural studies
Early modern cultural studies.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Basic Food Practices and Beliefs -- 2. Social Groups and Collective Identity -- 3. Status and Change -- 4. Vice and Virtue, Body and Soul
Summary "Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fasting rituals, and the social and cultural connotations of food. At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food as a mechanism for the performance of social identity. People perceived themselves and others as belonging to clearly defined categories of gender, status, age, occupation, and religion, and each of these categories carried certain assumptions about proper behavior and appropriate relationships with others. Food choices and dining customs were effective and visible ways of displaying these behaviors in the choreography of everyday life. In contexts from funerals to festivals to their treatment of the poor, Spaniards used food to display their wealth, social connections, religious affiliation, regional heritage, and membership in various groups and institutions and to reinforce perceptions of difference. Research on European food culture has been based largely on studies of England, France, and Italy, but more locally on Spain. Jodi Campbell combines these studies with original research in household accounts, university and monastic records, and municipal regulations to provide a broad overview of Spanish food customs and to demonstrate their connections to identity and social change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"-- Provided by publisher
"At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food as a mechanism for the performance and maintenance of social identity"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Food habits -- Social aspects -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
Food habits -- Social aspects -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
Gastronomy -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
Gastronomy -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
Food -- Symbolic aspects -- Spain
Food habits - Social aspects
Cooking -- history
HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
COOKING -- History.
Food habits -- Social aspects
Food -- Symbolic aspects
Gastronomy
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Spain -- Social life and customs -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86002434
Spain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004539
Subject Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016033152
ISBN 9780803296596
0803296592
9780803296602
0803296606
9780803296619
0803296614