The Development of a Research Topic: Food in Ethnographic Surveys Conducted by Institutions
The Development of a Research Topic: Food in Ethnographic Surveys Conducted by Institutions

Summary/Abstract: The current article reflects on ways in which food has been developed as a research topic in national and regional surveys under taken by institutes specialized in the study of traditional Romanian cultures. I analyse how questionnaires deal with the issue of alimentation, in light of the aims and purpose of the specific project in which they were used, beginning with the end of the nineteenth century. I draw attention to what kind of information about food was gathered via these questionnaires, how the information was evaluated, and the impact each survey had on the development of the topic, and implicitly on the study of food as a developing field of research. I have come to the conclusion of the marginality of this topic for long periods of time in the history of the Romanian ethnology.

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