Nutrition in the archaeological expeditions of Karelia in the 1980s: an ethnographic essay

The paper is devoted to the research, based on personal experience and aimed at studying the mental aspects of the work and life of professional archaeologists in expeditions in Karelia in the 1980s. In modern anthropology, this area is called autoethnography. The author does not set analytical tasks, concentrating on describing the details and vocabulary of one of the aspects of the expedition life - nutrition. It describes in detail the purchase of products, the design of the "forest kitchen", special dishes, cooking on a fire, a feast. There are no special papers on the study of the mental aspects of the work and life of archaeologists in Russian expeditions.