LEADER 03296oam 2200481 450 001 9910468242003321 005 20230823001324.0 010 $a3-030-53321-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-53321-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011528382 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6381484 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-53321-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011528382 100 $a20210416d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFood festivals and local development in italy $ea viewpoint from economic anthropology /$fMichele Filippo Fontefrancesco 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (XLVI, 179 p. 30 illus., 20 illus. in color.) 311 $a3-030-53320-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: Rural marginality and its development -- Chapter 2: Food festivals and the Italian foodscape -- Chapter 3: Food festivals as identity devices -- Chapter 4: Food festivals as political devices -- Chapter 5: Food festivals as economic devices -- Chapter 6: Conclusions: Food festivals as development devices. 330 $aWhat does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas? How can these celebrations pave the way to a better future for the local communities? This book is addressing these questions contributing to the ongoing debate about the future of rural peripheries in Europe. The volume is based on the ethnographic research conducted in Italy, a country internationally known for its food tradition and one of the European countries where the gap between rural and urban space is most pronounced. It offers an anthropological analysis of food festivals, exploring the transformational role they have to change and develop rural communities. Although the festivals aim mostly at tourism, they contribute in a wider way to the life of the rural communities, acting as devices through which a community redefines itself, reinforces its sociality, reshapes the perception and use of the surrounding environment. In so doing, thus, the books suggests to read the festivals not just as celebrations driven by food fashion, but rather fundamental grassroots instruments to contrast the effects of rural marginalization and pave the way to a possible better future for the community. Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, in Italy. His research focuses on themes of economic anthropology and, in particular, in issues concerning local development in Europe and Eastern Africa. . 606 $aFood festivals$zItaly 606 $aRural development$zItaly 606 $aEconomic anthropology$zItaly 615 0$aFood festivals 615 0$aRural development 615 0$aEconomic anthropology 676 $a394.26945 700 $aFontefrancesco$b Michele Filippo$0793805 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910468242003321 996 $aFood festivals and local development in italy$91949701 997 $aUNINA