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A Tale of Easter Ovens: Food and Collective Memory

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This article considers the power of food as a vehicle for memory by exploring the ways that food crosses
the personal and the collective, the individual and the social. It examines these questions through the lens of
certain Easter practices on the island of Kalymnos, Greece, concerning the preparation of lamb.
The ovens and pots used to prepare lamb are a marker of Kalymnian identity, but have moved in interesting ways in and out of social practice. By comparing these socially embedded practices with American "junk food" memories, the article suggests some general qualities that make food a useful site for the exploration of the social constitution of memory.

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Series Title

Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences

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New York : New School., 2008

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English

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0037-783X

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Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 157-182

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Collective memory
food

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