Abstract:

This volume is the result of years of collaboration between the University of Genoa, the University of Nottingham and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in the ‘common ground’ between critical interdisciplinary approaches to the problems concerning localization and the characterization of foodscapes and foodways. The 16 case studies – proposed by historians, geographers, ethnobotanists, and archaeologists – explore the multiple relationships between local production(s) and place(s), understood in the precise historical and topographical dimension of practiced spaces, drawing on a variety of different analytical tools and methodological approaches inspired by historical geographical microanalysis, historical ecology and the archaeology of environmental resources.