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