Totem and taboo in the grocery store
Quasi-religious foodways in North America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16646405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Zeller (0000-0002-4378-6088, Lake Forest College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0582-3226 • E-ISSN: 2343-4937 |
| Publisher | Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.30674/scripta.67444 |
| OpenAlex | W1603785420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article focuses on food proscriptions such as veganism and gluten-free eating, and prescriptions such as the Paleolithic diet, focusing on the North American context. These quasi-religious foodways serve as means for individuals to engage in discourses of community, personal and group identity, and boundary-marking. Through the daily practice of eating, those who follow quasi-religious foodways mark their identities, literally consuming who they are. These quasi-religious foodways therefore function to allow contemporary consumer-oriented individualistic Americans to engage in discourses of community, identity, and meaning in a highly vernacular manner, that of the marketplace. They also point to the manner in which identity and community have expanded well outside of religious categories
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Foodways · Identity (music · Religious identity · Social science · Sociology · Taboo · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Organic Food and Agriculture
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |