Lackenby, Nicholas;
(2024)
You are what you don’t eat – Fasting, Ethics, and Ethnography, in Serbia and Beyond.
Balcanica - Annual of the Institute for Balkan Studies
263 -274.
10.2298/BALC2455263L.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | You are what you don’t eat – Fasting, Ethics, and Ethnography, in Serbia and Beyond |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.2298/BALC2455263L |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC2455263L |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. |
| Keywords: | Ethics, food, fasting, former Yugoslavia, Orthodox Christianity, Serbia |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202818 |
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