Introduction
We are after all human, we must eat, animals must eat, and it is the game of survival, the only thing that sets us apart is humans cook there food. According to Fox (2005:1) cooking has more than a necessity, it is the symbol of our humanity in other words, what marks us off from the rest of nature. And because eating is almost always a group event , food becomes a focus of symbolic activity about sociality and our place in our society. Food consumption practices defiantly impacts on social interaction, by focusing on marketing attachments, rituals relating to food consumption and exchange of food in structuring social relations by basing the relationship between food consumption practices by identifying Hua food rules
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The father will be helping out in the kitchen as well as the eldest daughter, the younger children are in the lounge watching television, and a cooking show will be broad casting at the time, approximately fifteen minutes prior to the completion of the cooking the youngest daughter will have to help the mother prepare the green salad and the son will help the father and the eldest sister set the dining room table with white plates and crystal clear glass from India, using stainless steel cutlery, once the table is set mother will bring the food that was prepared to the table, youngest sister will bring the green salad, the son will bring the juice or the coke 2 …show more content…
Using my family lunch as an example, one can identify types of exchange.
Balanced Reciprocity Balanced reciprocity is very evident by the mother dishing for the father, the father pours coke or juice for the mother. The father buys the food and the mother prepares the food. After the dishes are washed the father and son removes all the rubbish. By both parties giving a type of exchange to one another.
Generalised Reciprocity We notice that generalised reciprocity means one party giving to another without expecting anything back. By the father praying before eating he is not expecting anything back.
Negative Reciprocity
When only one party contributes and the other party does not give anything back. In the family lunch negative reciprocity does not seem to be evident.
Food rules of Hua
Comparing the relationship between my personal food consumption and identity based on Hua’s food rules. Hua’s rules are based upon food as a cultural construction this means it has a variation of superstitions to an
We are after all human, we must eat, animals must eat, and it is the game of survival, the only thing that sets us apart is humans cook there food. According to Fox (2005:1) cooking has more than a necessity, it is the symbol of our humanity in other words, what marks us off from the rest of nature. And because eating is almost always a group event , food becomes a focus of symbolic activity about sociality and our place in our society. Food consumption practices defiantly impacts on social interaction, by focusing on marketing attachments, rituals relating to food consumption and exchange of food in structuring social relations by basing the relationship between food consumption practices by identifying Hua food rules
My own …show more content…
The father will be helping out in the kitchen as well as the eldest daughter, the younger children are in the lounge watching television, and a cooking show will be broad casting at the time, approximately fifteen minutes prior to the completion of the cooking the youngest daughter will have to help the mother prepare the green salad and the son will help the father and the eldest sister set the dining room table with white plates and crystal clear glass from India, using stainless steel cutlery, once the table is set mother will bring the food that was prepared to the table, youngest sister will bring the green salad, the son will bring the juice or the coke 2 …show more content…
Using my family lunch as an example, one can identify types of exchange.
Balanced Reciprocity Balanced reciprocity is very evident by the mother dishing for the father, the father pours coke or juice for the mother. The father buys the food and the mother prepares the food. After the dishes are washed the father and son removes all the rubbish. By both parties giving a type of exchange to one another.
Generalised Reciprocity We notice that generalised reciprocity means one party giving to another without expecting anything back. By the father praying before eating he is not expecting anything back.
Negative Reciprocity
When only one party contributes and the other party does not give anything back. In the family lunch negative reciprocity does not seem to be evident.
Food rules of Hua
Comparing the relationship between my personal food consumption and identity based on Hua’s food rules. Hua’s rules are based upon food as a cultural construction this means it has a variation of superstitions to an