Sharing Bread in the Local Brussels Vicinity
Sharing Bread in the Local Brussels Vicinity

Author(s): Johanna Kint
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Migration Studies, Globalization
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Belgium; Brussels; globalisation; multiculturalism; food and culture; melting pot; rituals;
Summary/Abstract: Globalization creates new horizons. The Norwegian anthropologist Fredrik Barth speaks of the way the global, with its trans-nationalism and transnational social movements, becomes the site of the beginning of 'in between' trans-border median spaces (Barth, 1994, p.11-32). Barth proposed to distinguish three levels of processes that evolve by themselves: a micro (or personal) level, a macro level (of 'state policies'), and a median level, where processes 'create collectivity and mobilize groups for diverse purposes by diverse means' (Barth 1994 cited in Leman et al., 2014).

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