CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Scrob, Mircea Lucian |
|---|---|
| Title | Diet Changes and Society: The shift from mamaliga to wheaten bread in the case of the 19th century Romanian peasantry |
| Summary | This thesis aims to offer an overview from a multidisciplinary perspective of one major change in the configuration of the Romanian peasants’ diet at about the turn of the 19th century. Particularly, it will focus on the emergence of a medical discourse on the nutritional value of the peasantry stressing the need for improvement through diversification and displacement and the receptivity of the medical message by the state along with the re-adjustments brought to their recommendations in order to correspond with the limited means available for their translation into practice. In this sense, both the medical personnel’s and the state’s specific configurations of the ‘ideal’ diet will be projected against the background of the socio-economic settings prevalent in the rural world which ultimately conditioned and limited the extent of the state’s intervention in reconfiguring the peasants’ diet to the narrow solution of replacing bread for mămăligă. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/scrob_mircea.pdf |
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