Kultura wielozmysowa: powrót do Kitowicza?
Multi-Sensual Culture: Kitowicz Revisited?

Summary/Abstract: The article presents two important traits of contemporary culture: the role of performance seen in reenactments, and sensuality (or even multi-sensuality) in the reception of culture, which is highly visible in the role played by food, in culinary practices and in related activities. A comparison of these phenomena with the 18th-century customs described by Jędrzej Kitowicz shows some similarities related to performance and sensuality, but at the same time one can see important cultural differences, deriving for example from the pace of contemporary life and deficit of time. Of importance in both cases is the social (societal) dimension, i.e. the role of social relations, social bonds, togetherness and community.

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