Food, Festival and Religion: Materiality and Place in Italy
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Materiality, Things and Power -- Introduction -- Location and methodology -- Further notes on language and on terms -- Materiality, things a...
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion Ser
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Howell, Francesca Ciancimino: Food, Festival and Religion : Materiality and Place in Italy. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2018. - 9781350020863 |
| Summary: | Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Materiality, Things and Power -- Introduction -- Location and methodology -- Further notes on language and on terms -- Materiality, things and power -- Relational epistemologies -- Place and its shadow -- Reclaiming the agent in Nature -- Animism, place-power and festival -- A new theory of place-power ecology: Theory of Active Place or ' TAP ' -- New cosmology, Gaia theory and a living Planet -- Foodways: relational, embodied awareness -- Localizing the sacred, sacralizing the local -- Dwelling perspectives that help to weave the world -- Festival as ritual -- Phenomenology and philosophy meet animism and new cosmology -- 'Place is a family affair': the many positive aspects of festivals -- Bocelli in Milan - a campanilismo anecdote -- The domus and the paese - shared values, but not always positively viewed -- Conclusion -- 2 The Phenomenon of the Community Festival -- Part one - festival forms and festive time -- Why study festival? -- The transformational quality of festival and community ritual -- All my relations, place included -- Diverse regional forms of Italian 'meaning-making' in festa and sagra -- An Italian plethora of festivals -- Catholicism, economics and late industrialization as influences on festival -- Comparing festivals - how many and which ones? -- Milan - built materiality in its sense of place and city festival -- Festivals of universal significance -- Some theories on the origins of Carnival -- Materiality and festival reversals -- Materiality and the masque -- The Palio of Siena -- 'Terra in piazza' - materiality of place, object, dirt and manure -- Embodiment and exteriorization -- Part two - food and feasting - eating and drinking to sacralize place Conclusion -- 3 Community, Tradition and Festivals in Lombardy -- Part one - Sense of place, relationship and identity in Lombardy -- The annual festival of the Badalisc1 -- Conclusion -- Part two - Lombardy -- Celtic New Year at Milan's Sforzesco Castle -- Conclusion -- 4 Community, Tradition, Food and Festival in Piedmont -- Materiality of place communicated through food and festival -- War, farming and sense of place -- Food, wine and communal meals - multiple symbols, multiple meanings -- Part one - Druids in Biella, pumpkins in Omegna -- Conclusion -- Part two: Le Langhe - Paroldo -- Conclusion -- 5 Feasting and Living Paganism in Northern Italy1 -- Materiality in dress, objects, living immanence -- The return of the Goddess -- Italy's indigenous practices meet twenty-first century Paganism -- Ingrained mores of resistance -- A rural country and an enchanted land -- New movements, consciousness and rites -- Stregoneria or Stregheria -- Il sentiero della Dea - the path of the Goddess -- British Traditional Witchcraft, Wicca and other contemporary lineages of Paganism -- Druidry reborn -- Conclusion -- 6 Theoretical Foundations and Diverse Perspectives -- Critical foundations from various disciplines -- Relationships with place, objects, food and Nature -- Modernity, networks and festival hybridity - engaging Latour's theories -- Temporal percolation: the heterotopia and alternative forms of temporality that allow for place-power awareness -- The unique agency of landscape art -- Ritual and liminality, sacred space and festive time -- How do we sacralize in our late modern era? -- Power dynamics, critical voices and problematic nuances -- Foodways as lived religion, ritual and community healing -- Conclusion -- 7 Analyses and Conclusions -- Analysis by scale - an archaeological precedent showing interanimation with place Part one - Scales and analysis -- Methods that index the unquantifiable -- Assessing sense of place as derived from materiality -- Part two - Theoretical structures supporting the analyses -- Factors contributing to a profound sense of place-power and deep engagement -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Dialoguing with the Earth -- Initial questions: what was asked -- Not permitting the magic to escape -- Final reflections -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1350020885 |