Łódzkie Studia Etnograficznehttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/125772024-03-28T14:21:17Z2024-03-28T14:21:17ZThe Realm of Things Culinary. Anthropological RecipesNowina-Sroczyńska, Ewahttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/175222021-07-07T07:05:24Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Realm of Things Culinary. Anthropological Recipes
Nowina-Sroczyńska, Ewa
The text is a presentation of an anthropological project of research on
culinaries constructed in such a way to be accessible also to practitioners of other
disciplines of the humanities. The proposed range of topics was embedded in four
general discourses: the temporal discourse, the spatial discourse, the discourse
of identity and the discourse of cultural trends. These discourses may fulfill the
role of cultural categories (as interpreted by Gurevich),and thus be descriptive and
interpretative tools. Investigation of the cultural phenomenon of things culinary
does not pertain only to those them; it also reveals various “faces” of culture in
the era of fluid modernity.
2015-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Taste Remembered. On the Extraordinary Testimony of the Women from TerezínKrupa-Ławrynowicz, Aleksandrahttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/175062023-09-22T11:24:13Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Taste Remembered. On the Extraordinary Testimony of the Women from Terezín
Krupa-Ławrynowicz, Aleksandra
The article presents an attempt to combine food studies (also termed
the anthropology of food) with scholarly reflection regarding memory. The analysis
focuses on the book entitled In Memory’s Kitchen. A Legacy from the Women of
Terezin [ed. Cara de Silva 2006], containing recipes for Jewish dishes written
down by women from the Teresienstadt ghetto. But some dozen recipes that have
survived do not make it a cookbook, which is essentially meant to be functional. It
is more of a remembrance, a testament, and also a source of knowledge of culture
at a given point in time. It is also a testimonial document. Recipes collected by de
Silva tell much about their authors. They define their roles as wives and mothers.
In addition, the Terezin notes point to a culinary heritage, the religious principles
of food preparation and the social and economical conditions that shaped the
culinary preferences and the diets of women locked in the ghetto. The article
demonstrates that the actions of preparing and consuming food are a constantly
repeated practice, which is connected in a network of relationships with other
practices. This practice it is anchored in the everyday life, embedded in the family’s
biography and fused with childhood memories. Food is presented as a sign
of identity, the social bond and the community of family and friends, and also as
a gift that serves to uphold these ties.
2015-01-01T00:00:00ZOn the Appetite TrailKarpińska, Grażyna Ewahttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/175052021-01-30T11:29:33Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZOn the Appetite Trail
Karpińska, Grażyna Ewa
The article recounts actions oriented at experiencing and reliving culinary
traditions, undertaken by the Local Action Group of the “Mroga” Society for
the Local Community Development.
The Society operates in five communes: Koluszki, Brzeziny, Dmosin, Jeżów and
Rogów, located in the north-eastern part of the current Łódź voivodeship, east of
the city of Łódź. In the past, this area, which bordered regions whose characteristic
features indicated their distinct regional identities (the Łęczyca Land and the Łowicz
Principality from the north, the Rawa Land from the east, the Opoczno and Piotrków
Lands from the south, and Łódź from the west), was devoid of definite features
typical to folk culture. Currently it is still an area which, due to the absence of a
consistent and enduring cultural foundation to refer to, cannot be described in the
categories of an ethnographic or geographic region. By following the tourist trail
laid by the Society, known as the “Appetite Trail”, I reconstruct the vision of what
the community resident in the five communes covered by the activity of the “Mroga”
Local Action Group defines as the region’s culinary tradition, and I deconstruct the
Group’s actions that reduce the tradition to the level of a tourist attraction.
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