Overview
- The first book dedicated to Italians and food concentrating on contemporary issues, collecting sound empirical research grounded in a sociological, yet interdisciplinary, perspective
- Grounds the unique argument within the current literature on localization/globalization and consumption
- Uses first hand material from empirical research on trust, food markets and consumers in Italy and other European countries
Part of the book series: Consumption and Public Life (CUCO)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is a novel and original collection of essays on Italians and food. Food culture is central both to the way Italians perceive their national identity and to the consolidation of Italianicity in global context. More broadly, being so heavily symbolically charged, Italian foodways are an excellent vantage point from which to explore consumption and identity in the context of the commodity chain, and the global/local dialectic.
The contributions from distinguished experts cover a range of topics including food and consumer practices in Italy, cultural intermediators and foodstuff narratives, traditions of production and regional variation in Italian foodways, and representation of Italianicity through food in old and new media.
Although rooted in sociology, Italians and Food draws on literature from history, anthropology, semiotics and media studies, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of food studies, consumer culture, cultural sociology, and contemporary Italian studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Roberta Sassatelli is Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan and Visiting Professor at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Bra, Italy. She has published widely on consumer cultures, cultural theory, visual methods, gender and the body.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Italians and Food
Editors: Roberta Sassatelli
Series Title: Consumption and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15681-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15680-0Published: 29 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15683-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15681-7Published: 18 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-8227
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 279
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Self and Identity, Sociology of Culture, European Culture