ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some of the results of more extensive research undertaken in Catalonia in 2006 and 2007. The main objective of research was to recover oral memory concerning the food of people who had lived through the Spanish Civil War and postwar period. The chapter focuses on the lack of food in the context of the Spanish Civil War and the postwar period. Analysis of food role allows us to understand some of the human relationships which enable social reproduction and take place within this specific context. According to Narotzky and Moreno, the concept of social reproduction involves various aspects: the material, in how to reproduce the things necessary for survival; political, in the reproduction of power relationships; cultural, in terms of the reproduction of identity; and moral, with regard to the reproduction of a just system. The chapter shows a distinction between the four sources of food income: urban labour markets, social welfare, mutual assistance and self-supply.
