Food Segregation In The Traditional And Modern Culture Of The Kyrgyz People (For Example, Meat Food) Volume 4 - Issue 1

Kochkunov Aidarbek Sulaimankulovich*

• Anthropologist, Doctor of historical Sciences, Professor The Academy of public administration under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek

Received:April 29, 2021;   Published: May 11, 2021

Corresponding author: Kochkunov Aidarbek Sulaimankulovich, Anthropologist, Doctor of historical Sciences, Professor The Academy of public administration under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek

DOI: 10.32474/JAAS.2021.03.000180

 

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Abstract

The article examines food segregation in the traditional and modern culture of the Kyrgyz people using the example of meat food. It analyzes issues such as sampling and slaughtering livestock for guests, carcass cutting and the composition of prestigious pieces of meat, maintaining hierarchy in the distribution of pieces of meat, issues of sexual, age, status, kindred, clientela-power segregation. The modern forms of food segregation, the degree of functioning of traditional types of segregation in the distribution of prestigious pieces of meat among honored guests are investigated. The article concludes that it is extremely important in traditional society to observe the distribution of prestigious pieces of meat as confirmation of the social, kinship, gender, age, and other status of a person in the family and society. In essence, the phenomenon of the distribution of prestigious pieces of meat among the guests was ordered and systemic, with a clear definition of a person’s place in society. The evolution of food segregation based on meat food in the modern period is also traced. It is concluded that, despite the transformation of the order of reception of meat food, some aspects of the tradition of segregation in the modern period continues to function. This applies, first, to sex-age segregation during the reception of meat food at guest meals.

Keywords:Food Segregation; Meat Dishes; Prestigious Pieces Of Meat; Meal; Guest; Tradition; Modernity; Djilik; et Tartuu; Ustukan; Ucha

Abstract| --> Introduction| Selection, Slaughter and Carcass Cutting| Gender Segregation| Age Segregation| Related Status| Food Segregation In The System Of Client-Power Relations| Ucha Acceptance Procedure| The Current Status of Meat Food| Elements of Segregation While Eating Meat| Elements of Segregation At Major Events: Toy And Ash| Food Segregation When Serving Ucha| Conclusion| References|