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Razvoj prehrambenih studija: doprinosi sociologije, kulturne antropologije, etnologije i povijesti
The Development of Food Studies: The Contributions of Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology and History

Author(s): Jelena Ivanišević, Melanija Belaj
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Culture, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: food studies; food ethnology and cultural anthropology of food; sociology of food; historical food studies;

Summary/Abstract: This paper gives an overview of the relevant research in the fields of cultural anthropology, ethnology, sociology and history of food that had an impact of the development of food studies, a platform that brings together research in food culture from the viewpoint of a variety of scholarly disciplines and subdisciplines. The paper also highlights the growing impossibility of writing about food from a single disciplinary perspective, thus underlining the need for interdisciplinary research of food in different context.

  • Issue Year: 52/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 241-264
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Croatian