Overview
- Examines food, festivals, and rural life in Italy
- Compares the Italian case with other food festivals
- Analyses the importance of food festivals in rural and economic development
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About this book
What 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
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy
Book Subtitle: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology
Authors: Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53321-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53320-5Published: 28 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53323-6Published: 28 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53321-2Published: 27 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLVI, 179
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Tourism Management, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Development Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Cultural Economics