Food, Drink and Identity in Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-420-2086-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: European Studies - An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics

Scholars across the humanities and social sciences are increasingly examining the importance of consumption to changing notions of local, regional, national and supranational identity in Europe. As part of this interest, anthropologists, historians, sociologists and others have paid particular attention to the roles which food and drink have played in the construction of local, regional and national identity in Europe. This volume provides the first multidisciplinary look at the contributions which food and alcohol make to contemporary European identities, including the part they play in processes of European integration and Europeanization. It provides theoretically informed ethnographic and historical case studies of transformations and continuity in social and cultural patterns in the production and consumption of European foods and drinks, in order to explore how eating and drinking have helped to construct various local, regional and national identities in Europe. Of particular note in this volume is its attention to how food and drink intersect with recent attempts to foster greater European integration, in part through the recognition and support of common and diverse European cultures and identities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wilson, Thomas M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

THOMAS M. WILSON: Food, Drink and Identity in Europe: Consumption and the Construction of Local, National and Cosmopolitan Culture
MENNO SPIERING: Food, Phagophobia and English National Identity
JOEP LEERSSEN: From Whiskey to Famine: Food and Intercultural Encounters in Irish History
MICHAEL WINTLE: Diet and Modernization in The Netherlands During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
GARY ARMSTRONG AND HANS HOGNESTAD: Hitting the Bar: Alcohol, Football Identities and Global Flows in Norway
F. XAVIER MEDINA: ‘Social Wine’: Ethnic Identity and Wine Consumption in the Basque Diaspora in Barcelona (Spain)
WENDY L.H. LEYNSE: Journeys Through ‘Ingestible Topography’: Socializing the ‘Situated Eater’ in France
KAREN MONTAGNE: The Quest for Quality: Food and the Notion of ‘Trust’ in the Gers Area in France
Erick CASTELLANOS and Sara M. BERGSTRESSER: Food Fights at the EU Table: The Gastronomic Assertion of Italian Distinctiveness
Stacia E. ZABUSKY: Food, National Identity, and Emergent Europeanness
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Über Autor(innen)

Thomas M. Wilson is Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He has conducted ethnographic field research in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Hungary on European integration, international borders and national identity. He is the co-author of Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State (1999) and The Anthropology of Ireland (2006) and the editor of Drinking Cultures (2005). He is also the co-editor of the quarterly journal Identities: Global Studies of Culture and Power.