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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451469203321

Titolo

Food, drink and identity in Europe / / edited by Thomas M. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY : , : Rodopi, , 2006

ISBN

94-012-0349-0

1-4294-5624-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics ; ; 22

Altri autori (Persone)

WilsonThomas M. <1951->

Disciplina

394.120940902

Soggetti

Food - Social aspects - Europe

Cooking - Social aspects - Europe

Food habits - Social aspects - Europe

Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Social aspects - Europe

National characteristics, European

Group identity - Europe

Cooking - Social aspects

Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Social aspects

Food habits - Social aspects

Food - Social aspects

Group identity

Electronic books.

Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Thomas M. Wilson -- AUTHORS IN THIS VOLUME / Thomas M. Wilson -- INTRODUCTION: FOOD, DRINK AND IDENTITY IN EUROPE: CONSUMPTION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOCAL, NATIONAL AND COSMOPOLITAN CULTURE / Thomas M. Wilson -- FOOD, PHAGOPHOBIA AND ENGLISH NATIONAL IDENTITY / Menno Spiering -- FROM WHISKEY TO FAMINE: FOOD AND INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN IRISH HISTORY / Joep Leerssen -- DIET AND MODERNIZATION IN THE NETHERLANDS DURING THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES / Michael Wintle -- HITTING THE BAR:



ALCOHOL, FOOTBALL IDENTITIES AND GLOBAL FLOWS IN NORWAY / Gary Armstrong and Hans Hognestad -- ‘SOCIAL WINE’: ETHNIC IDENTITY AND WINE CONSUMPTION IN THE BASQUE DIASPORA IN BARCELONA (SPAIN) / F. Xavier Medina -- JOURNEYS THROUGH ‘INGESTIBLE TOPOGRAPHY’: SOCIALIZING THE ‘SITUATED EATER' IN FRANCE / Wendy L.H. Leynse -- THE QUEST FOR QUALITY: FOOD AND THE NOTION OF ‘TRUST’ IN THE GERS AREA IN FRANCE / Karen Montagne -- FOOD FIGHTS AT THE EU TABLE: THE GASTRONOMIC ASSERTION OF ITALIAN DISTINCTIVENESS / Erick Castellanos and Sara M. Bergstresser -- FOOD, NATIONAL IDENTITY, AND EMERGENT EUROPEANNESS AT THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / Stacia E. Zabusky.

Sommario/riassunto

Scholars across the humanities and social sciences are increasingly examining the importance of consumption to changing notions of local, regional, national and supranational identity in Europe. As part of this interest, anthropologists, historians, sociologists and others have paid particular attention to the roles which food and drink have played in the construction of local, regional and national identity in Europe. This volume provides the first multidisciplinary look at the contributions which food and alcohol make to contemporary European identities, including the part they play in processes of European integration and Europeanization. It provides theoretically informed ethnographic and historical case studies of transformations and continuity in social and cultural patterns in the production and consumption of European foods and drinks, in order to explore how eating and drinking have helped to construct various local, regional and national identities in Europe. Of particular note in this volume is its attention to how food and drink intersect with recent attempts to foster greater European integration, in part through the recognition and support of common and diverse European cultures and identities.