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Last Updated: 24/05/2025

Code - Course Title Compulsory/Elective Laboratory + Practice ECTS
TDE341 - Folklore of Food VI. SEMESTER 2 +0 4.5
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Area Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) PROF. DR. ÇİĞDEM KARA
Mode of Delivery Face to face
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Prerequisites There are no prerequisites
Courses Recomended SOS355 Sociology of Food and EDB373 Introduction of Turkish Folklore
Recommended Resources Long, M.L. (Ed.). (2015). The Food and Folklore - Reader. London: Bloomsbury.; Camp, Charles. “Foodways”. American Folklore-An Encyclopedia. ed. J.H. Brunvand. 622-628. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996.; Camp, Charles. “Foodways”. An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, And Art. ed. T.A. Green. 366-371. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, Inc, 1997.; Goody, Jack. Yemek, Mutfak, Sınıf-Karşılaştırmalı Sosyoloji Çalışması. çev. M.G.Güran. İstanbul: Pinhan, 2013.; Long, L.M. “Foodways: Using Food to Teach Folklore Theories and Methods. Digest: An Inter Disciplinary Study of Food and Foodways 19 (1999), 32-66.
Work Placement There is no application of the course.
Aims of the Course

Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 social groups and food culture
Week - 2 food, locality, identity
Week - 3 traditional kitchen units
Week - 4 material culture products related to food culture
Week - 5 table traditions
Week - 6 dimensions of food
Week - 7 adaptive strategies and food preparation for winter
Week - 8 traditional cooking techniques
Week - 9 The food preparation process and social roles
Week - 10 food and folk medicine
Week - 11 food and taboo
Week - 12 ceremonial and festive foods
Week - 13 foods in passege periods and rites of passage
Week - 14 Traditional food culture and sustainability

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