Commensality promotes a strong and expressive conviviality in particular circumstances.
In this process, subjects imbricate tastes, values, habits, biomedical prescriptions and pleasures involved in
commensality situations.
People are seen as potential risk agents within the visible walls of the ghettos, or behind the invisible but no less tangible prohibitions on
commensality, shared living and commerce; 'Purifying' - banishing strangers out of the administered territory (18).
commensality, memory, resistance, offering, joy, and celebration between
Christians debate whether Muslims are more like Jews (hence unqualified for
commensality) or more like pagans (hence better to eat with).
The female piper appears because her music is connected to
commensality. Similarly, Aristophanes' Achamians presents a compact list of materials for a wild final party before the fleet sets out, a list that includes "wreaths, sprats, female pipers, and black eyes" (Ach.
The caryavrata is a time-delimited practice that involved living in liminal or funereal spaces (forests, mountain peaks, cemeteries, etc.), possessing horrific items of dress (loose hair, ornaments of bone, a skull staff, etc.), and employing transgressive behaviors (sex, wandering,
commensality, song, dance, consumption of the meats and ambrosias, etc.).
According to him, "Dress, music, poetry, dance,
commensality, and rhetoric are all techniques that play crucial part in the process of sociocultural causation" (Cohen 1981, 207).
But, their general economic condition allowed them greater autonomy to maintain caste based rules of endogamy and
commensality (247).
And in this specifically Italian structuring of meals, where there is no separation between children and adults, children are socialized to a distinct notion of
commensality, one that entails children and adults converging around food on an almost equal status and the role of food as a bonding agent.