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This chapter examines the role of food in breaking down social boundaries and creating sociability, fellowship and emotional ties in Moonshadow Pond. The chapter draws from theories of ritual to analyze the mechanisms by which conviviality and “co-feeling” is forged through banqueting and ordinary eating events. It also looks at the role of key food substances – tea, alcohol and meat – in creating social and emotional ties. Finally, it asks how food works to generate emotions in a specifically Chinese context, in which emotion may not always be overtly expressed, but is sometimes expressed through food sharing and exchange. |
