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PhD in History, Senior Researcher, Center of European and American Researches, N.N. MiklukhoMaklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Published in accordance with the research plans of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In this article, the author studies the current state of “bread culture” in Sicily, mainly on the basis of field materials. The author analyzes the introduction this culture to immigrants, who make up a large proportion of Sicily’s population. The main emphasis is not on the material aspects of the food acculturation of newcomers, but on spiritual ones — on their introduction to the traditional local vision of bread and its semantic interpretation. Along with this, the author examines the emergence of new social practices of mutual assistance related to bread within the context of the coronavirus pandemic and quarantine, as well as the use of revived archaic magical protective traditions that also involve bread. The author concludes that introducing immigrants to the material and spiritual aspects of bread culture in Sicily indicates the region’s acceptance and acculturation of “newcomers,” the local people’s readiness for dialogue, and the endurance of Sicilian identity that preserves local traditions.
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