ANTB64H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Capital, Marcel Mauss, Egalitarianism
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Sharing, making and exchanging food brings people together. Certeau and giard the nourishing acts. He was interested in the everyday practices which are repetitive. Women how much work they involve and the value of work. Food practice that are unnoticed a place where women have been grounded. They are interested in looking at the everyday meals. Housewife as personal doing the buying for her family. Trying to escape the gendered roles of cooking and trying to write inside. Discovering how to cook food, she absorbed knowledge from her mother. Small, every day, unconscious aspects of cooking. New joy of cooking, she suggests that this is a link to past generations of women who were not able to express themselves. Their knowledge and experience has travelled forward to her. Link between work as a cook and the work that she is doing as a writer. Initially concerned something that doesn"t need to be learned.
