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Food, Festival and Religion - Materiality and Place in Italy (Hardcover)
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Food, Festival and Religion - Materiality and Place in Italy (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
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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.
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