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Anikó Báti and Patricia Lysaght (eds.): Living eating habits, revitalized foodways and the concepts of tradition and food heritage. 367–383. Budapest: ELTE RCH, 2025. |
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Katalin Juhász: Food Heritage and Food Rituals as an Indispensable Element of Contemporary ‘Crossover Folk Customs’: The Example of Csömör (Hungary) |
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Abstract: Nowadays, ‘classical’ folk traditions are seen as an inherited spiritual and material cultural value from the past. The new millennium has seen the emergence of ‘glocalisation’, a process that goes hand in hand with globalisation: the role of local culture has been enhanced, which strengthens local identity and can also be a source of cultural capital that can be monetised through festivals and tourism. The activity of the new generation of ‘traditional’ communities is not limited to maintaining a conserved, static cultural heritage in an unchanged form. Instead, they are both reconstructing and rebuilding traditions, with the aim of creating new traditions that successfully appeal to the people of the present. This paper focuses on rituals and community interactions, presenting food types. Through some examples, it looks at how new folk customs are constructed according to the principles of crossover, design thinking and social innovation. |
