Reflection: Making kin with sourdough during a pandemic

IF 1.2 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Food and Foodways Pub Date : 2020-12-08 DOI:10.1080/07409710.2021.1860336

Laura Siragusa

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract Relying on auto-ethnography, I reflect on the role sourdough and bread-making practices have played during the COVID-19 pandemic. I explore the agency of a non-human entity—the sourdough—and the relations that emerge from nurturing it. In particular, I inquire what living relationally means for me—a professional migrant—in a time that is not only challenging, due to the pandemic and consequent lockdown away from my country of origin, but which has also forced me to proactively and creatively respond to being in a precarious employment. Sourdough and bread-making practices have allowed me to create, recreate, and reinforce new and existing relations. I, thus, indicate to what extent such practices activate kin making and knowledge making, whilst counterbalancing the alienation and distress that come from experiencing a pandemic.

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反思:在流感大流行期间用酵母制作亲缘

摘要依靠汽车摄影，我反思了酸面团和面包制作实践在新冠肺炎大流行期间发挥的作用。我探索了一个非人类实体——酸面团——的能动性，以及培养它所产生的关系。特别是，我想知道，在一个充满挑战的时代，生活在关系上对我——一个职业移民——意味着什么，因为疫情和随之而来的远离原籍国的封锁，但这也迫使我积极而创造性地应对不稳定的就业。Sourdough和面包制作实践让我能够创造、重建和加强新的和现有的关系。I、因此，表明这种做法在多大程度上激活了亲属关系和知识创造，同时抵消了经历疫情带来的疏离感和痛苦。

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Food and Foodways ANTHROPOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Food and Foodways is a refereed, interdisciplinary, and international journal devoted to publishing original scholarly articles on the history and culture of human nourishment. By reflecting on the role food plays in human relations, this unique journal explores the powerful but often subtle ways in which food has shaped, and shapes, our lives socially, economically, politically, mentally, nutritionally, and morally. Because food is a pervasive social phenomenon, it cannot be approached by any one discipline. We encourage articles that engage dialogue, debate, and exchange across disciplines.