Anthropology of Nutrition as a Mega-Discipline: Revisiting the Work of the 15th Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article highlights the work of one of the sections of the 15th Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia — the section “Anthropology of Nutrition as a Mega-Discipline: Field, Language, and Archive”, which, after a long break, again reminded from the stands of a wide scientific forum about the existence of such a direction of scientific search as research in an interdisciplinary manner and in the paradigm of anthropology of a wide range of issues of alimentary culture. Along with the analysis of purely food phenomena in their gastronomic, cultural, historical, social, religious, political, philosophical, and other hypostasis, in accordance with the given topic, the speakers paid great attention to the methodic and methodological basis of their scientific researches, methods of working in the field, processing and archiving of the obtained data. During the work of the section, various regional research areas were highlighted, from domestic ones devoted to Russian realities in all their chronological diversity, to a wide range of foreign ones, represented by the analysis of numerous Mediterranean food artifacts and phenomena, as well as gastronomic phenomena of Asia, Africa, the Pacific. The coverage of the work of the section allows us to state the breadth and depth of the anthropology of nutrition as an extensive scientific field.
Source: Kunstkamera
Authors: Oxana Fais-Leutskaia, Alexander Novik
Subfield: Food Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7117459019