Negotiating Children’s Food Culture in Post-socialist Poland
Children’s food culture is created through their everyday practices: through negotiations at the dinner table, in school, when watching TV and through their relations with parents, grandparents, siblings and peers. Drawing on twelve months of research in Warsaw (Poland), which included ethnographic...
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Anthropology of food
2015
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| Summary: | Children’s food culture is created through their everyday practices: through negotiations at the dinner table, in school, when watching TV and through their relations with parents, grandparents, siblings and peers. Drawing on twelve months of research in Warsaw (Poland), which included ethnographic study with families and in primary schools, I argue that children’s food culture is created in opposition to adult rules, yet it also incorporates elements of adults’ food culture. In fact it is influenced by different groups of adults: parents, teachers, marketers. It consists not only of improper sweets and junk foods, often identified as the symbol of children’s food, but includes also proper meals and related norms. In this article I discuss how children’s food culture is negotiated and created through material, moral, practical and historical processes in post-socialist Poland. |
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