Mystical and social value of the work while creating the bread

Abstract

This paper is a part of author’s wider consideration problems of ties between nature, crafting and society. The work shows effects and results of collapse of traditional religious and magic values concerning agricultural products, especially the bread. The paper deals an integrated approach connecting food production of peasant farms with culture and everyday life of particular categories of country people. Today however, especially under the influence of globalization processes, there is a strong need for an integration glance and perception of the issue, mainly appropriate to the past role of traditional “strong values”. The special painful problem is a “deep trauma” of contemporary transformation of peasant communities. A strong indicator of this is number of committed suicides within some categories of peasant.