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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786786303321

Autore

Brulotte Ronda L.

Titolo

Edible identities : food as cultural heritage / / edited by Ronda L. Brulotte, Michael A. Di Giovine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-138-63494-8

1-315-57878-6

1-317-14599-2

1-317-14598-4

1-4094-4264-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Heritage, Culture and Identity

Disciplina

394.1/2

Soggetti

Food habits

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Re-Inventing a Tradition of Invention; 2 Terror in D.C.? Inventing Food Traditions for the Nation's Capital; 3 Of Cheese and Ecomuseums: Food as Cultural Heritage; 4 Edible Authenticities; 5 The Everyday as Extraordinary; 6 Take the Chicken Out of the Box; 7 Caldo De Piedra and Claiming Pre-Hispanic Cuisine as Cultural Heritage; 8 Hallucinating the Slovenian Way; 9 Haute Traditional Cuisines; 10 Reinventing Edible Identities; 11 French Chocolate as Intangible Cultural Heritage; 12 Daily Bread, Global Distinction?

13 The Mexican and Transnational Lives of Corn 14 Cultural Heritage in Food Activism; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and other scholars of food and heritage, this volume closely examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of 'cultural heritage' on local, regional, national and international scales. Featuring case studies from Europe, Asia and the Americas, this timely volume also addresses the



complex processes of classifying, designating, and valorizing food as 'terror,' 'slow food,' or as intangible cultural heritage through UNESCO. By effectively analyzing food and