The magic harvest : food, folklore and society

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The magic harvest : food, folklore and society

Piero Camporesi ; translated by Joan Krakover Hall

Polity Press , Marketing and production, Blackwell Publishers, 1998

  • : pbk

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La terra e la luna

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Originally published: Arnold Mondadori Editore S.p.A., Milan, c1989

Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-241) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

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.

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