Dog hijackers and kebabs underground. Contemporary culinary myths about foreigns Cover Image

Porywacze psów i kebabowe podziemie. Współczesne mity kulinarne o obcych
Dog hijackers and kebabs underground. Contemporary culinary myths about foreigns

Author(s): Marcin Napiórkowski
Subject(s): Anthropology, Civil Society, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Rural and urban sociology, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; taboo; totem; culinary; myths; foreign;

Summary/Abstract: The author discuss urban myths about meals served by chefs from other cultures than Polish, especially Chinese/Vietnamese and Turkish. But what are the culinary myths for? We can approach them as a social practice and ask another question: what exactly are the city's myths for? To answer this question, it was taken advantage of the similarity between culinary myths about foreigns and the phenomenon of culinary taboos and its relation to totemism.

  • Issue Year: 34/2012
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 188-197
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish