Abstract
The study presents an introduction to the Anthropology of Food, a branch of science focusing on food and eating in cultural, social and religious context. Emphasis is placed on esential questions from an anthropological perspective: food as language and as a part of human identity.
The study is concerned also with the present situation when people are loosing their identity due to the globalization. The aim of this study is to prove that the Anthropology of Food is an important branch of science aiming to knowledge and relection on people dealing with and developing relationships with their bodies, with other people, with their cultural history, with animals and with the environment - from moral position and through the food.