Ageing and Loneliness in Catalonia: The Social Dimension of Food Behaviour

This article focuses on the relationship between the following three concepts: aging, loneliness and food. Our analytical and methodological proposal aims to understand the experience of loneliness encountered by people over 64 living in Barcelona, through thedescription and analysis of food and its...

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Autor: Bofill Poch, Sílvia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/228002
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/228002
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Antropologia de l'alimentació
Envelliment
Solitud
Nutritional anthropology
Aging
Solitude
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Sumario:This article focuses on the relationship between the following three concepts: aging, loneliness and food. Our analytical and methodological proposal aims to understand the experience of loneliness encountered by people over 64 living in Barcelona, through thedescription and analysis of food and its practice; that is, all those aspects (in)directly related to food practice. Though our analysis is focused on food, we will stress the social--rather than nutritional---dimensions of food behavior. Thus our point of departure is the organic relationship established between food, society and culture (Contreras, 1995).