Commensality, communitas and contestation on the Camino Francés: making pilgrims through meals

• Augusta X. Thomson ^[1]
  1. [1] New York University

     New York University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Pilgrims: Values and identities / Darius Liutikas (ed. lit.), 2021, ISBN 9781789245653, págs. 94-104
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter draws from Sutton's discussion (in Remembrance of Repasts: An Ethnography of Food and Memory, 2001) of Eucharistic commensality to argue that communal meals given to and shared by pilgrims (at albergues, or pilgrim hostels, and a few restaurants) along the Camino Francés, a 500-mile Christian pilgrimage, serve as historically embedded instances of communitas aimed at shaping and framing pilgrims' identities and motivations and connecting pilgrims to each other and to the Camino's 1000-year-old religious history.