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Cooking with humour. Belorusian humorous folklore about family cooking traditions
Anastasiya Fiadotava, a junior research fellow at the Estonian Literary Museum, presents in her lecture a study of Belarusian humorous folklore revolving around cooking. It examines two different types of folklore text: jokes collected on the internet, and humorous anecdotes in family lore about cooking, the latter collected through fieldwork. By comparing the two kinds of humour, the study investigates to what extent the values and attitudes manifest in my interviews mirror those found in internet jokes. The research shows that while there can be some parallels between the two types of humour, their forms, topics, and functions differ greatly and reflect separate aspects of Belarusian foodlore.
You can follow the lecture: http://www.folklore.ee/rl/fo/loeng/Cooking_lecture.mp4
The lecture is supported by the research grant of the Estonian Literary Museum EKM 8-2/20/3 and by the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies (TK 145) through the European Regional Development Fund.
