The text represents a review of fundamental theoretical approaches within the framework of food studies. In the focal part, in terms of the poststructuralistic paradigm, it presents an interpretation of the interconnection of embodiment, subjectivity and discourse with special attention to symbolic meanings and cultural connotations. The closing text analysis points out an example of discoursively determined examination of vegetarianism and carnivority as two basic food or cultural schemes. Throughout history and in praxis the two do not exclude themselves, but are sometimes complementary and sometimes oppositional, especially when one of them plays the role of a social oppositional movement.
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