Symbolism And Faculty Of Humanities

Symbolism and Faculty of Humanities

Introduction

In order to understand the dynamics in which food is handled, a broad study of how do we feed ourselves?, Because eating for each person represents a form of expression that is linked to a symbolic burden depending on the culture that has such a community. Based on us, it is Juan to understand that eating and satisfying our basic needs with food, food becomes with a symbolic burden either religious, political, identity, ethical or moral type. So, food is linked to a symbolic culture that we express it by eating.

Developing

The symbolic characteristics of food are varied, they range from spiritual to material. With that we would understand that incorporating a food into our food would be to incorporate all its symbolic and material load, therefore, not only feed represents the eating fact, but is part of a food culture.

On the other hand, among the first research that talked about food we would have different anthropological currents, structuralism and cultural materialism. For grace from the functionalist approach, several relationships referring to food from symbolic practices were established to the close relationship of humans with the ways of feeding more exactly with nature and this gave the anthropology of food an area from anthropologyapplied.

Based on the above, among the pioneers of anthropological food we can talk about Leví-Strauss which is his book of structuralist anthropology, he makes an overview of culinary systems from a cultural dimension, exemplifying the semiology of French food andBritish more specifically of traditional food as a progression of food in nature.

In this order of ideas, since Levi-Strauss proposed the concept of semiology, a series of speeches around food was unleashed, based on the above Marvis. Begins to establish the relationships of what is eaten and what is not eaten in order to carry out a social structure that is delimited by what is eaten between the large food industries. Thus, a communicative system is established that is expressed through symbologies that are defined as a system of relationships between objects and subjects that express something physical.

Among the most current studies of food symbolism and all its implications, García and Medina are mentioned. They present. A holistic study of food uses and symbology in Latin America and Spain. Giving a perspective from the anthropology applied for food studies of globalization and food as a symbol relying on the aforementioned authors.

conclusion

Then, modern food problems are treated from several perspectives from ecology, ethnicity, globalization and modernity, taking into account that the food phenomenon is essential to study social processes. By starting from food problems, symbolism could be developed as a way of expressing each variable that is identified in a linguistic community that adapts to the essential phenomena of modernity

On the other hand, Sedó conducts a broad study of the food symbolism of adults, and concludes that the symbolic value of what they eat is governed by spiritual and material beliefs. It belonged to carrying out a broad study of what we eat lies in being able to observe how communities know how to damage their identity through a complex sign system

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