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Jedzenie jako tekst kultury. Zarys problemu
Food as text: an outline

Author(s): Bogusław Skowronek
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Semantics, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: cultural studies; food; texts; meaning; discursive text;

Summary/Abstract: The article defines food as discursive text. The category comprises food items, the general process of eating, the individual act of eating. The author discusses the problem by showing how it functions in different fields of cultural studies, such as: anthropology, sexuality, power and dominance, politics and the sacred.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 281-289
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish
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