Tamar Hayrapetyan - Food culture in Armenian oral tradition (daily, feast and ritual, and mythological levels)
24 Pages | 216-240 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2022.2-216 | Revceived on: 2021-11-10 | Reviewed on: 2021-11-18 | Accepted for printing on: 2022-04-08
Published in: 2022 N 2 (220) / Ethnography
The food system is one of life essentials, where the key features of popular worldview and lifestyle of people are relatively evident. Traditional cultural manifestations of having or refusing meals are interrelated with life style of an individual, with a subsequent procedure, type of food, rules of conduct typical of festive meal. These rules are of universal nature and are represented in folklore (sometimes implicitely hidden), and often appear in mythological plots.
Keywords food food culture feast ritual holiday myth folklore.