Porta Palazzo : The Anthropology of an Italian Market.
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- 9780812205794
- 381/.4564130945121
- HF5474.I82 -- B535 2012eb
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Going to Market -- Chapter 1. The Market as a Field -- Chapter 2. The Evolution of a Market -- Chapter 3. A Neighborhood, a Square, and a Market -- Chapter 4. Fare la spesa: Shopping, Morality, and Anxiety at the Market -- Chapter 5. Il Ventre di Torino: Migration and Food -- Chapter 6. Kumalé: Ethnogastronomic Tourism -- Chapter 7. Nostrano: The Farmers' Market, Local Food, and Place -- Conclusion: La Piazza-City, Public Space, and Sociability -- Afterword: Porta Palazzo Market and Urban Renewal -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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