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Cultural rules determine every aspect of food consumption. Who eats together defines social units. For example, in some societie
Cultural rules determine every aspect of food consumption. Who eats together defines social units. For example, in some societie
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2022-07-19
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Cultural rules determine every aspect of food consumption. Who eats together defines social units. For example, in some societies, the nuclear family is the unit that regularly eats together. The anthropologist Mary Douglas has pointed out that, for the English, the kind of meal and the kind of food that is served relate to the kinds of social links between people who are eating together. She distinguishes between regular meals, Sunday meals when relatives may come, and cocktail parties for acquaintances. The food served symbolizes the occasion and reflects who is present. For example, only snacks are served at a cocktail party. It would be inappropriate to serve a steak or hamburgers. The distinctions among cocktails, regular meals, and special dinners mark the social boundaries between those guests who are invited for drinks, those who are invited to dinner, and those who come to a family meal. In this example, the type of food symbolizes the category of guest and with whom it is eaten.
In some New Guinea societies, the nuclear family is not the unit that eats together. The men take their meals in a men’s house, separately from their wives and children. Women prepare and eat their food in their own houses and take the husband’s portion to the men’s house. The women eat with their children in their own houses. This pattern is also widespread among Near Eastern societies.
Eating is a metaphor that is sometimes used to signify marriage. In many New Guinea societies, like that of the Lesu on the island of New Ireland in the Pacific and that of the Trobriand Islanders, marriage is symbolized by the couple’s eating together for the first time. Eating symbolizes their new status as a married couple. In U.S. society, it is just the reverse. A couple may go out to dinner on a first date.
Other cultural rules have to do with taboos against eating certain things. In some societies, members of a clan, a type of kin (family) group, are not allowed to eat the animal or bird that is their totemic ancestor. Since they believe themselves to be descended from that ancestor, it would be like eating that ancestor or eating themselves.
There is also an association between food prohibitions and rank, which is found in its most extreme form in the caste (social class) system of India. A caste system consists of ranked groups, each with a different economic specialization. In India, there is an association between caste and the idea of pollution. Members of highly ranked groups can be polluted by coming into contact with the bodily secretions, particularly saliva, of individuals of lower-ranked castes. Because of the fear of pollution, Brahmans and other high-ranked individuals will not share food with, not eat from the same plate as, not even accept food from an individual or from a low-ranking caste.
What is the main idea of the passage?
选项
A、Different kinds of food in the world.
B、Relations between food and social units.
C、Symbolic meanings of different kinds of food.
D、Food consumption in different cultures.
答案
D
解析
本题属于主旨大意题。需要结合全文各段主题作答。通过以上各个题目后面对各段主题的总结,可以了解到文章的主旨是谈论文化对不同地区人们在一起用餐(who eats together)的习俗的影响,因此选项D与原文含义相同,为正确答案。选项A、B、C均属于无中生有。因为文章并未对世界上不同种类的食物(different kinds of food in the world)进行介绍,也没有具体说明食物(food)与社会单位(social units)之间的关系(relations)如何,也没有谈论不同种类食物的象征意义(symbolic meanings of different kinds of food)。
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