Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market

Rachel E. Black

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2012

Porta Palazzo

The Anthropology of an Italian Market

Rachel E. Black
With contributions by: Carlo Petrini

In the series Contemporary Ethnography

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205794

Overview
Contents

About this book

From the history of Porta Palazzo, Western Europe's largest open-air market, to its current growing pains, this book turns an ethnographic eye on a meeting place for trade, cultural identity, and cuisine.

Author / Editor information

Rachel E. Black is Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Gastronomy Program at Boston University. She is the editor of Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia. Carlo Petrini is the founder of the Slow Food Movement and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. His books include Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair.

Reviews

"A very readable and accessible ethnography of the Porta Palazzo open-air market in Turin, Italy."—Journal of Modern Italian Studies

"A robust, well-structured and argued book. [Rachel Black] provides us with a fresh, different slant on an urban space that, as she demonstrates, is far from being a place simply for buying and selling food."—Anthropology of Food

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Carlo Petrini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Going to Market Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. The Market as a Field Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 2. The Evolution of a Market Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 3. A Neighborhood, a Square, and a Market Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Chapter 4. Fare la spesa: Shopping, Morality, and Anxiety at the Market Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter 5. Il Ventre di Torino: Migration and Food Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 6. Kumalé: Ethnogastronomic Tourism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter 7. Nostrano: The Farmers’ Market, Local Food, and Place Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Conclusion. La Piazza—City, Public Space, and Sociability Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Other: 12 illus.
Keywords: Anthropology; Folklore; Linguistics

eBook

Published: April 16, 2012
ISBN: 9780812205794