The article presents some preliminary results of anthropological fieldwork conducted in two villages in the northern part of Montenegro. The fieldwork itself was based on participant observation. Statements are analyzed as events, guiding narrative and theory. Method is recognized as the action creating theory. Production, distribution and consumption of food are vehicles for the narrative. Family as elementary unit of a clan is perceived asan institution for actors in specific social relations - for example, heirs acquire passive position while eating. It is argued that foreigners do not enter social relations, while a nation does. Food can make a journey to foreign guests, who invent Balkan tradition by consuming it, while family guests invent the home as the center of the Balkans. Food represents knowledgein political relations. Although it is the state that produces nations, political parties can replace the state. Elections are recognized as an event and short circuit for kinship and political relations, which can then produce either "balkanization" of the atom of kinship, or an example of an individualized society.
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