Esra,
I don't know where you will be conducting your research, but if you are interested in the Danish cultural context, you may want to read a 1976 piece by Judith Friedman Hansen titled "The Proxemics of Danish Daily Life." It deals directly with rituals of hospitality around the table. If you're interested in the table itself as a carrier of meaning, another article of potential interest is Gertrud Ĝllgaard's 1999 "A super-elliptical moment in the cultural form of the table: a case study of a Danish table."
There's some discussion of ritual drawn from my own research in Denmark and from Friedman Hansen's piece in an article I wrote for ambidextrous. You can download a PDF of that article from my website:
http://www.jybean.com/Ideas.html
Best,
Jonathan Bean
PhD Candidate
UC Berkeley Department of Architecture
On Nov 8, 2010, at 4:49 AM, esra bici wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am conducting a research about the dining tables. I am searching out if
> they lose their essence by the contemporary life styles in which people
> don't have so much time for cooking meals, work for long periods, eat out
> often. I also will conduct a survey about the situation of the frequency
> this dining ritual in people's lives. I have been searching for two weeks. I
> would like to learn if you also know any references for this subject.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Esra.
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