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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Food and Identity : Food Culture as a Means of National Integration in the Modern European Countries

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15520467
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field History of Europe and America
Research InstitutionKyoto Tachibana University (2005)
Osaka International University (2003-2004)

Principal Investigator

MINAMI Naoto  Kyoto Tachibana University, Faculty of Literature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (20181951)

Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2005
KeywordsFood culture / Diet history / National integration / Nation state / Cookbook / National identity / Food control system / Food sciences
Research Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the fundamental problems of the modern European society, such as industrialization, urbanization, nationalism and integration of a nation state, from a new and unique viewpoint of food and through the materials on food history. Especially the investigator focuses on studying the process of integration of nation states from a topic of everyday life, food, and also tries to treat a wide range of problems on politics, economy and society. The materials of this research are several sources about diet, some contemporary documents such as cookbooks, and various secondary documents. And the investigator participated in the eighth and ninth international symposiums of the International Commission for Research into European Food History (ICREFH), which were held in 2003 in Prague and in 2005 in Berlin, and on those occasions he collected a lot of information about this subject from several leading food historians in Europe.
The subject of food cultu … More re is related with a wide range of the problems of human society and history. In this research, I discuss, at first, the general historical transition of food on the background of the industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth-century Europe and, particularly study the problem of food adulteration and the construction of regal and administrative control system of food distribution. Secondly, I consider the progress of the food sciences, such as dietetics and nutritional chemistry, as premise of construction of the food control system, and also observe an expansion of the "anti-modern" discourse about food in the late nineteenth century as reaction of such a remarkable progress of the food sciences. Thirdly, as a main subject, I treat the relationship between the formation of modern nation state and the food problem. I trace the process of making use of the dietetics and nutritional education as means of the integration of working class to a nation state, on levels of discourse and institution. And moreover, I examine that some cookbooks played an important roll in a formation of national identity in some small European countries such as Norway and Slovenia.
As a whole, it seems to be proved that the food culture was closely connected with the integration process on a level of nation states in Europe. Less

  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2006 2004

All Journal Article (4 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 食の歴史の可能性-ヨーロッパ近代社会史研究の視点から-2006

    • Author(s)
      南 直人
    • Journal Title

      関学西洋史論集 29号

      Pages: 51-60

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Possibilities of the Food History from Viewpoint of the European Modern History2006

    • Author(s)
      Naoto Minami
    • Journal Title

      Kangaku-Seiyoushironshu (Journal of Western History) No.29

      Pages: 51-60

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] ヨーロッパ食生活史研究のための国際委員会(ICREFH)第8回シンポジウム(プラハ 2003年9月30日-10月5日)2004

    • Author(s)
      南 直人
    • Journal Title

      大阪国際大学紀要 国際研究論叢 17巻3号

      Pages: 65-76

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Report on the Eighth Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History, held in Prague 30.9.-5.10.20032004

    • Author(s)
      Naoto Minami
    • Journal Title

      OIU Journal of International Studies Vol.18, No.1

      Pages: 65-76

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] 新・食文化入門2004

    • Author(s)
      森枝卓士, 南直人編
    • Publisher
      弘文堂
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] A New Introduction to the Study of Food Culture2004

    • Author(s)
      Takashi Morieda, Naoto Minami (eds.)
    • Publisher
      Tokyo, Kobundo Pub.
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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