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Email: a.canolli@ucl.ac.uk
Year of start: 2007 – (2008-2010 interruption) expected to finish in early 2013
Subject: Material Culture
Research Topic/ Provisional Dissertation Title
Behind open doors: social significance of food in Kosova
Supervisor(s)
Prof. Chris Tilley
Prof. Susanne Kuchler
Introduction
My research project aims to explore and analyse the social significance of food in Kosova. My question is: As the newest recognised state in the world to what extent is Kosova a "newborn" materiality? Is Kosova cuisine a "newborn" or an "oldcorn"? What is happening in the kitchens and on the tables of the "newborn" state and what does it do and mean to people there? I am exploring the construction of a newborn cuisine as a heterogeneous reassessment activity in the context of political, social and cultural change. I am currently completing my fieldwork in Prishtina.
Research interests
- Anthropology of material culture
- Anthropology of food
- Anthropology of heritage
- Anthropology of visual culture
- Ethnographic film
- Anthropology of customary law
Academic Background/Education
- BA in Arts (2004)
- MA in Material and Visual Culture (2005)
