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This essay offers an ethnographic analysis of the role of food in modern Italian food festivals. Starting from the ethnographic case of Borgonovo, a rural town in Southern Piedmont, and its festival, it highlights the nonlinear role played by food in the festivals and points out gastronomic festivals should be read as a local response of rural, and marginal communities to the phenomenon of their social marginalization.

Food Festivals and Expectations of Local Development in Northern Italy

Ethnologia Actualis

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This essay offers an ethnographic analysis of the role of food in modern Italian food festivals. Starting from the ethnographic case of Borgonovo, a rural town...

Food Festivals and Expectations of Local Development in Northern Italy

Published Online: Apr 06, 2019

Page range: 118 - 134

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2019-0006

Keywords
Italy, food, local development, tourism, ethnography

© 2018 Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Food Festivals and Expectations of Local Development in Northern Italy

Published Online: Apr 06, 2019

Page range: 118 - 134

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2019-0006

KeywordsItaly, food, local development, tourism, ethnography

© 2018 Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Italy, food, local development, tourism, ethnography