The Magic Harvest

Food, Folkore and Society

Piero Camporesi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

1998
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-2196-8 (ISBN)

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* Camporesi is one of Europea s most important and original historians of food and culture* This is a lively account of the history of popular beliefs about food in Europe* His previous book on a similar subject, The Bread of Dreams, was very widely reviewed; the present book should also receive a good deal of exposure.

The Magic Harvest is a rich and wide-ranging account of the history of popular beliefs about food in Europe.

Focusing on Italy, Camporesi examines the social symbolism of food, and its associated rituals. He shows how the act of eating at weddings and seasonal feasts was seen as a metaphor for copulation; how Christmas and Easter were marked by special cakes rich in eggs, symbolizing renewal; how bread was viewed as a magic talisman against the forces of darkness; and how the harvest was regarded as the offspring of a fertile Earth which yielded up its fruits. All this rich and varied symbolism, he suggests, has become an opaque enigma for us today.

Piero Camporesi is Professor of Italien Literature at the University of Bologna.

Part I:. 1. Bread and Death: Food and Peasant Rituals in Italy.

2. The Two Faces of Time: The City Calendar and the Country Calendar.

3. The Setting of the Moon: Wine, the Vine and the New Science.

4. Food and Popular Culture.

5. Dietary Geography and Social History.

6. City Cooking and Country Cooking.

Part II:.

7. Bourgeois Cooking in the 19th Century: Between Tradition and Renewal.

8. Concentrated Broth.

9. The Demon of the Hearth.

10. Shopping for Food.

11. The Age of the Soya Bean.

12. The Great Transformation.

13. Born Under Libra.

Appendices.

1. Diet and Literature.

2. List of Authors.

Notes and References.

Glossary.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.9.1998
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 233 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-2196-1 / 0745621961
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-2196-8 / 9780745621968
Zustand	Neuware