Cantar, rezar, comer y bailar (Las marzas y sus rituales)

Abstract

Eating is an important social activity in the sense that food provides various mechanisms of social and cultural identities, such as manifested in the anthropologic analysis of the ritual processes of the "marzas". This was an ancient ritualistic device of the so-called traditional society, which has now been redefined in its positions and meanings, and which, through the festive interactions of the groups, which bear the ritual. The petitions of bonuses, organisation of group meals, etc., allowed the various actors of the community to show their social being, to symbolically reinforce their links and their identity strategies. At the same time they show a certain modality of social integration of individuals in a single moral community, in which they share an identical reference framework of belonging and definition.