You are what you don’t eat - fasting, ethics, and ethnography, in Serbia and beyond
This article examines Orthodox fasting in contemporary Serbia. It does so through the theoretical lens of ‘ethical affordances’, suggesting that food and fasting practices allow a range of people to articulate different ethical evaluations. Food and fasting generate diverse reflections on t...
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| description | This article examines Orthodox fasting in contemporary Serbia. It does so
through the theoretical lens of ‘ethical affordances’, suggesting that food
and fasting practices allow a range of people to articulate different
ethical evaluations. Food and fasting generate diverse reflections on the
importance of rules, spiritual growth, hypocrisy, and sincerity. Thinking
anthropologically, we see that people with range of viewpoints on the Church
are in fact united in making ethical evaluations. More broadly, the article
speculates that thinking about the ethical affordances of food might be one
way to develop the ethnography of religion after Yugoslav socialism more
generally. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ef76a745596c47fa9409965b358b4bb32025-01-30T06:44:48ZengInstitute for Balkan Studies SASABalcanica0350-76532406-08012024-01-0120245526327410.2298/BALC2455263L0350-76532455263LYou are what you don’t eat - fasting, ethics, and ethnography, in Serbia and beyondLackenby Nicholas0Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, United KingdomThis article examines Orthodox fasting in contemporary Serbia. It does so through the theoretical lens of ‘ethical affordances’, suggesting that food and fasting practices allow a range of people to articulate different ethical evaluations. Food and fasting generate diverse reflections on the importance of rules, spiritual growth, hypocrisy, and sincerity. Thinking anthropologically, we see that people with range of viewpoints on the Church are in fact united in making ethical evaluations. More broadly, the article speculates that thinking about the ethical affordances of food might be one way to develop the ethnography of religion after Yugoslav socialism more generally.https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2024/0350-76532455263L.pdfethicsfoodfastingformer yugoslaviaorthodox christianityserbia |
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| title | You are what you don’t eat - fasting, ethics, and ethnography, in Serbia and beyond |
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| title_sort | you are what you don t eat fasting ethics and ethnography in serbia and beyond |
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