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PRAKTIKA E PËRDITSHME E VAKTEVE USHQIMORE NË KOSOVË
THE EVERYDAY PRACTICE OF EATING A MEAL IN KOSOVO

Author(s): Bubulinë Syla
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture
Published by: Instituti Albanologjik i Prishtinës
Keywords: tradition; Kosovo; Food; social togetherness; cultural identification;

Summary/Abstract: Everyday life happens ongoingly around us in an unstoppable flow of events, processes and things of different affordances and properties. One of most repeated practices in our everyday routine is the habit of eating. Food is seen not only as an object that enables us to function and develop the body and growth, but it is also a good practice of social togetherness and cultural identification. It is a fundamental social activity, a necessity and daily practice of creating and cementing social relacionships in society. Throughout time, in every culture, people have consumed traditional or modern foods, individually or in groups, indoors or outdoors, by(un) following norms and rules established by the social order. Moreover, they have reworked, remixed, reinvented and reshaped such activities, events, and processes in an unstoppable flow. Therefore, the aim of this research paper is presenting some facts about the everyday and repeated practices of eating a meal by Albanian families and individuals and how they cook and what they cook, eat, serve in dining romsin Kosovo (especially after the war 1999).

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 52
  • Page Range: 125-144
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Albanian