O corpo, o comer e a comida: um estudo sobre as práticas corporais e alimentares cotidianas a partir da cidade de Salvador - BA

• Main Author: Santos, Ligia Amparo da Silva
• Publication Date: 2006
• Format: Doctoral thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Download full: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3716
• topic: Corpo; Praticas corporais; Praticas alimentares; Dieta alimentar; Socio-antropologia da alimentacao; Corpo humano -- Aspectos sociais; Habitos alimentares -- Salvador, BA; Salvador, BA -- Usos e costumes; Habitos de saude -- Salvador, BA; Exercicios fisicos -- Salvador, BA; Body; Body practices; Eating; Eating practices; Socio-anthropology of food; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::ANTROPOLOGIA

This study investigates how women and men experiment, feel and act on the phenomena related to the body and eating practices as well as the relation of these with the urban space. The first scenario of this study was Salvador City in Bahia, Brazil. Semi- structured interviews with 24 women and men from different social classes, and documental analysis were used as methodological resources. The transformation and permanence of these phenomena which have taken place in the Salvador city in the last decades will be also approached. The starting point is the idea of the construction of new bodies under the discourse about the contemporary body slim, healthy and light - and the news disciplines of eating, as well as the transformation of the culinary practices and the use and interpretation of the supplies used to the construction of the light taste is taking place in the Salvador city. From these processes, the body, the eating and the food are reinterpreted by the individuals with the aim of promote a novel adaptation to these new corporal and eating orders in construction. It is related to a process of lightização of the existence that it does not necessary exclude others processes: the food traditions are reinvented and it is important part of the corporal and food scenario. It also discusses about how these movements are in consonance to the international trends related to these phenomena and also to the modernization processes which takes place in Salvador city, which started in 1950s and increased in the last two decades. In this way, it considers that the modernization in the space of the city it is not only the modernization of the architectural complexes or the industrial enterprises, for example, but also the modernization of the bodies, their corporal and alimentary practices. Therefore, this study discusses these phenomena in the ordinary quotidian of the individuals in the city relating the local, national and the global processes as well as the tradition, diversity and modernity trends