Excerpts from a Theme: Gingerbread Craft in a Multicultural Community
Excerpts from a Theme: Gingerbread Craft in a Multicultural Community

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on a case study dedicated to the making of gingerbread—one of the most appreciated crafts in the villages of Central and Eastern Europe. The ethnographic documents brought into discussion are parts of an extended research on the oral history of the Romanian historical communities from the province of Vojvodina (Serbia), as it emerges from the autobiographical narratives of the local people. The selection of the interviews recorded in Nikolinc (Nicolinþ), one of the most representative Romanian village in the cultural area taken into consideration, allows the researchers to have a grassroots perspective on the functions given to food in the social practices of the community and to highlight the strategies of adaptation to the economic context experienced in time by the practitioners of a traditional craft.

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