Preliminary communication
HOW TO APPEASE ONE'S HUNGER IN EXILE
Nives Ritig-Beljak
; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagren, Croatia
Abstract
Nine years after the outbreak of war in Croatia in 1991, it has
become obvious that the refugee phenomenon is not a mere
transitional and short-term social imbalance. The author utilises the
ethnological momentum of "war ethnography", dealing with the
ways refugees adapted their nutrition. Stimulus for more profound
research come from the voices of protest in radio programmes for
internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees. Explanation of
those protests are given by the other participants in the time of
crisis, humanitarian workers, and by refugees themselves,
confronted with the decision on whether to return to their former
homes or to remain in their new communities which have demanded
numerous compromises from them, including acceptance of changes
in their nutrition. Combining these utterances, the author tries to
evoke the times and the strategy of refugee diet.
Keywords
war ethnography; food; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
33476
URI
Publication date:
13.6.2000.
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