Nourishing the Nation
Subtitle: Food As National Identity in Catalonia
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781789204377
Subjects: Food habits; National characteristics, spanish; Nationalism, spain
Description: "In the early twenty-first century, nationalism has seen a surprising resurgence across the Western world. In the Catalan Autonomous Community in northeastern Spain, this resurgence has been most apparent in widespread support for Catalonia's pro-independence movement, and the popular assertion of Catalan symbols, culture and identity in everyday life. Nourishing the Nation provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia, using an essential, everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today"--