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Chapter 4 Food and locality
Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe contends that food is a fundamental element of heritage, and a particularly important one in times of crisis. Arguing that food, taste, cuisine and gastronomy are crucial markers of identity that are inherently connected to constructions of place, tradition and the past, the book demonstrates how they play a role in intangible, as well as tangible, heritage. Featuring contributions from experts working across Europe and beyond, and adopting a strong historical and transnational perspective, the book examines the various ways in which food can be understood and used as heritage. Including explorations of imperial spaces, migrations and diasporas; the role of commercialisation processes, and institutional practices within political and cultural domains, this volume considers all aspects of this complex issue. Arguing that the various European cuisines are the result of exchanges, hybridities and complex historical processes, Porciani and the chapter authors offer up a new way of deconstructing banal nationalism and of moving away from the idea of static identities. Suggesting a new and different approach to the idea of so-called national cuisines, Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe will be a compelling read for academic audiences in museum and heritage studies, cultural and food studies, anthropology and history. Chapters 1,2,4,6 and 12 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licens
Chapter 4 Food and locality
Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe contends that food is a fundamental element of heritage, and a particularly important one in times of crisis. Arguing that food, taste, cuisine and gastronomy are crucial markers of identity that are inherently connected to constructions of place, tradition and the past, the book demonstrates how they play a role in intangible, as well as tangible, heritage. Featuring contributions from experts working across Europe and beyond, and adopting a strong historical and transnational perspective, the book examines the various ways in which food can be understood and used as heritage. Including explorations of imperial spaces, migrations and diasporas; the role of commercialisation processes, and institutional practices within political and cultural domains, this volume considers all aspects of this complex issue. Arguing that the various European cuisines are the result of exchanges, hybridities and complex historical processes, Porciani and the chapter authors offer up a new way of deconstructing banal nationalism and of moving away from the idea of static identities. Suggesting a new and different approach to the idea of so-called national cuisines, Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe will be a compelling read for academic audiences in museum and heritage studies, cultural and food studies, anthropology and history. Chapters 1,2,4,6 and 12 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licens
Le nuove generazioni nella crisi italiana: alcuni contributi sociologici
This contribute discusses some comparative researches on the different "generational experiences" in Italy between the economic miracle and the current crisis, shedding light on the usefulness and the limits of “generation” as a historical category. While generation represents a useful point of view from which to look at the social change within a wide context pervaded by multiple social forces, it becomes a rather narrow and misleading concept when considered as an isolated source of social identit
Astrocomp: a web service for the use of high performance computers in Astrophysics
Astrocomp is a joint project, developed by the INAF-Astrophysical Observatory
of Catania, University of Roma La Sapienza and Enea. The project has the goal
of providing the scientific community of a web-based user-friendly interface
which allows running parallel codes on a set of high-performance computing
(HPC) resources, without any need for specific knowledge about parallel
programming and Operating Systems commands. Astrocomp provides, also, computing
time on a set of parallel computing systems, available to the authorized user.
At present, the portal makes a few codes available, among which: FLY, a
cosmological code for studying three-dimensional collisionless self-gravitating
systems with periodic boundary conditions; ATD, a parallel tree-code for the
simulation of the dynamics of boundary-free collisional and collisionless
self-gravitating systems and MARA, a code for stellar light curves analysis.
Other codes are going to be added to the portal.Comment: LaTeX with elsart.cls and harvard.sty (included). 7 pages. To be
submitted to a specific journa
Tidal tails around globular clusters
We present the results of detailed N-body simulations of clusters moving in a realistic Milky Way potential. The strong interaction with the bulge and the disk of the Galaxy leads to the formation of tidal tails, emanating from opposite sides of the cluster. Their orientation and morphology may be interpreted easily in terms of a comoving frame of coordinates
Os conventos de Portalegre e a formação do Museu Municipal
O Museu Municipal de Portalegre surgiu em 1918, mas sĂł a 28 de Maio de 1961 viria a abrir as suas portas ao pĂşblico. O espĂłlio museolĂłgico formou-se, por um lado, a partir dos bens provenientes das casas religiosas da cidade (sobretudo do mosteiro de S. Bernardo e do convento de Santa Clara); por outro, de generosas doações de coleccionadores particulares. A sua criação enquanto espaço cultural, por excelĂŞncia, da cidade de Portalegre Ă© reflexo, tambĂ©m, das polĂticas governamentais entĂŁo vigentes, quer no que respeita Ă salvaguarda do patrimĂłnio artĂstico, como na sua dinamização atravĂ©s do turismo cultural.The Municipal Museum of Portalegre appeared in 1918, but only opened its doors to the public on the 28th of May 1961. The collections of the museum were formed, in one hand, by the heritage from the religious houses of the city (especially the monastery of Saint Bernard and the convent of Saint Clara); on the other hand by generous donations of private collectors. Its establishment as a privileged cultural space in the city of Portalegre also reflects government policies, both regarding the preservation of artistic heritage, as well as developing new dynamics through cultural tourism.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Forming the First Stars in the Universe: The Fragmentation of Primordial Gas
In order to constrain the initial mass function (IMF) of the first generation
of stars (Population III), we investigate the fragmentation properties of
metal-free gas in the context of a hierarchical model of structure formation.
We investigate the evolution of an isolated 3-sigma peak of mass 2x10^6 M_solar
which collapses at z_coll=30 using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. We find
that the gas dissipatively settles into a rotationally supported disk which has
a very filamentary morphology. The gas in these filaments is Jeans unstable
with M_J~10^3 M_solar. Fragmentation leads to the formation of high density
(n>10^8 cm^-3) clumps which subsequently grow in mass by accreting surrounding
gas and by merging with other clumps up to masses of ~10^4 M_solar. This
suggests that the very first stars were rather massive. We explore the complex
dynamics of the merging and tidal disruption of these clumps by following their
evolution over a few dynamical times.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, uses emulateapj.sty. Accepted for publication in
the Astrophysical Journal Letter
Rapidly rotating second-generation progenitors for the blue hook stars of {\omega} Cen
Horizontal Branch stars belong to an advanced stage in the evolution of the
oldest stellar galactic population, occurring either as field halo stars or
grouped in globular clusters. The discovery of multiple populations in these
clusters, that were previously believed to have single populations gave rise to
the currently accepted theory that the hottest horizontal branch members (the
blue hook stars, which had late helium-core flash ignition, followed by deep
mixing) are the progeny of a helium-rich "second generation" of stars. It is
not known why such a supposedly rare event (a late flash followed by mixing) is
so common that the blue hook of {\omega} Cen contains \sim 30% of horizontal
branch stars 10 , or why the blue hook luminosity range in this massive cluster
cannot be reproduced by models. Here we report that the presence of helium core
masses up to \sim 0.04 solar masses larger than the core mass resulting from
evolution is required to solve the luminosity range problem. We model this by
taking into account the dispersion in rotation rates achieved by the
progenitors, whose premain sequence accretion disc suffered an early disruption
in the dense environment of the cluster's central regions where
second-generation stars form. Rotation may also account for frequent
late-flash-mixing events in massive globular clusters.Comment: 44 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables in Nature, online june 22, 201
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