Food, Festival and Religion: Materiality and Place in Italy Contributor(s): Howell, Francesca Ciancimino (Author), Whitehead, Amy R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350020869 ISBN-13: 9781350020863 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Agriculture & Food - History | Europe - Italy |
Dewey: 203.609 |
LCCN: 2018009118 |
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.08 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Howell, Francesca Ciancimino: - Francesca Ciancimino Howell is Adjunct Faculty in Resilient/Environmental Leadership at Naropa University, Colorado, USAPaine, Crispin: - Crispin Paine is Visiting Fellow, University College Chichester.Plate, S. Brent: - S. Brent Plate is Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College, New York, USA. |