Duffett, Rachel (2012) A Taste of Army Life. Cultural and Social History, 9 (2). pp. 251-269. DOI https://doi.org/10.2752/147800412x13270753068885
Duffett, Rachel (2012) A Taste of Army Life. Cultural and Social History, 9 (2). pp. 251-269. DOI https://doi.org/10.2752/147800412x13270753068885
Duffett, Rachel (2012) A Taste of Army Life. Cultural and Social History, 9 (2). pp. 251-269. DOI https://doi.org/10.2752/147800412x13270753068885
Abstract
Food and military identity were inextricably linked in the British Army: rations were a thrice daily indicator of the men's separation from their civilian selves. The soldiers were what they ate, but they were also where and how they ate; the grubby rapacity of the barrack dining hall, the absence of civilizing cutlery and the unfamiliar food delineated their new role as clearly as any uniform. Institutional feeding facilitated the erasure of self, an unhelpful attribute in the military world. Men's accounts indicate the conflict between their appetites and what they all too often regarded as oppression in a dietary form. © The Social History Society 2012.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2011 13:43 |
Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2024 23:01 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/584 |