#commensality

[terrysaffold]

[tobias-marschall]

The right hand. No sugar but a bit of salt, simply pour your fried bread (borsook) in tea. Hands are marked by the sun and works but also mark trust or friendship in tending to the same meal, embracing another hand, etc. It would be impure or disrespectful to reach with the left, works and preferences realized with a touch of arbitrariness. #afghanistan #centralasia #hand #tea #habits #design #detailing #distinction #friendship #commensality #collaboration (at Wakhan, Badakhshan, Afghanistan)

[rufusbroth]

When hospitality leaves the safe realms of Kantian humanist universalism, in other words, it's enquiry in to the stranger becomes a bio political engagement extended to political constellations which include a plethora of beings, a pluriverse of different spheres and 'containers': planets and spacecraft, insects and viruses, the Nuoso souls-spiders of captive guests, communist cadres and Tibetan mountain deities.

Matei Candea, Giovani Da Col

[rufusbroth]

The substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth, Janet Carsten

"It is clear that not only is 'social' identity in Langkawi unfixed, but 'physical' identity, a person's substance is continuously acquired and alterable." "Langkawi relatedness is derived both form acts of procreation and from living and eating together. It makes little sense in indigenous terms to label some of these activities as social and others as biological."

[blunder-me-blog]

[ping-xie]

[Backlight, Dinner, Shanghai]

[blunder-me-blog]

Cornell Chronicle: Daily news from Cornell University

#blunderfm

[blunder-me-blog]

Getting the farm crew together for a sit-down meal — even if it’s in the field or machinery shed — is about more than getting people fed a hot meal with a

#blunderfm