Food, festival and religion: materiality and place in Italy
"Food, Festival and Religion explores how communities in northern Italy find a restorative sense of place through foodways, costuming and other forms of materiality. Festivals examined by the author vary geographically from the northern rural corners of Italy to the fashionable heart of urban M...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Bloomsbury Academic
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Bloomsbury studies in material religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Upper Italy
/ Religious festival
/ Festivity
/ Banquet
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| Further subjects: | B
Festivals (Italy, Northern)
B Fasts and feasts (Italy, Northern) B Electronic books B Italy, Northern Religious life and customs B Italy, Northern Social life and customs |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | "Food, Festival and Religion explores how communities in northern Italy find a restorative sense of place through foodways, costuming and other forms of materiality. Festivals examined by the author vary geographically from the northern rural corners of Italy to the fashionable heart of urban Milan. The origins of these lived religious events range from Christian to vernacular Italian witchcraft and contemporary Paganism, which is rapidly growing in Italy. Francesca Ciancimino Howell demonstrates that during ritualized occasions the sacred is located within the mundane. She argues that communal feasting, pilgrimage, rituals and costumed events can represent forms of lived religious materiality. Building on the work of scholars including Foucault, Grimes and Ingold, Howell offers a theoretical 'Scale of Engagement' which further tests the interfaces between and among the materialities of place, food, ritual and festivals and provides a widely-applicable model for analyzing grassroots events and community initiatives. Through extensive ethnographic research and fieldwork data, this book demonstrates that popular Italian festivals can be ritualized, liminal spaces, contributing greatly to the fields of religious, performance and ritual studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing Materiality, things, and power -- The phenomenon of the community festival -- Community, tradition, and festivals in Lombardy -- Community, tradition, food, and festival in Piedmont -- Feasting and living paganism in Northern Italy -- Theoretical foundations and diverse perspectives -- Analyses and conclusions |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1350020893 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781350020894 |