G Volpato
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 19309 |
|---|---|
| NOME | G Volpato |
| PRENOMES | G |
| SOBRENOME | Volpato |
| ASSINATURA | VOLPATO G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Gastronomic Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1950-2479 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Between fusion and ceremonialization. An exploration of Latin American and Caribbean migrants’ foodways in cosmopolitan Almere, The Netherlands
Desert Entanglements
Chapter 7. Relationality and Multispecies Agency in the Badiya
Relocalising agriculture and renewing agrobiodiversity in the Western Italian Alps through co-creation of agroecological knowledge and practices
Interstitial pastoralism at the economic frontier of Kenya's Central Rift Valley
This article explores pastoral change in Kenya's Central Rift Valley. It discusses how local pastoralists have adapted livestock mobility to a landscape subjected to the advancement of economic frontiers and rapid urbanization. We argue that the set of strategies deployed is constitutive of 'interstitial pastoralism.' This is present in many contemporary contexts where pastoralists are squeezed in the interstices of rangelands that they no longer…
Niches, Interstitiality and Impoverishment. Pastoralism Among Afghan Kochi Refugees in Mansehra, Northwest Pakistan
The long reach of commodity frontiers
Conceptualizing global floriculture as a commodity frontier, this article explores rural-urban transfers and in loco production and exchange of food by migrant workers at Naivasha flower farms in Kenya. It highlights how food procurement strategies are central to the reproduction of a cheap labour force and are supported by multi-local family networks. Distant livelihoods and rural ecologies are thus tied to the frontier's interests and are embed…
Perceptions and Revitalization of Local Ecological Knowledge in Four Schools in Yasin Valley, North Pakistan
Mountains are often recognized as sites of biocultural diversity, and local ecological knowledge (LEK) is an integral part of community life. Rapid cultural standardization and urbanization have threatened biocultural diversity, posing threats to LEK in mountain areas. The current study aimed to gather data on the status of LEK in the Yasin Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, and discuss options with the local population for revitalizing LEK in f…
The relighting of community ovens in the Western Italian Alps as a process of commoning
Commons and commoning have been historically instrumental in sustaining livelihoods in Alpine areas. After decades of abandonment and oblivion, a process of repopulation is instilling new life there, with community building emerging from new and old highlanders’ commoning. Focusing an anthropological lens on these processes, this study investigates community ovens in the Western Italian Alps as commons, and their relighting as a process of common…
The relational and dynamic nature of biocultural diversity. Foods and gastronomic knowledge in multi-ethnic migrants’ settlements in Naivasha, Kenya
In this study, we discuss the relational and dynamic nature of biocultural diversity in urban and multi-ethnic settlements inhabited by migrants working in flower and horticultural farms in Naivasha, Kenya. Migrants cope with vulnerable livelihoods and low wages by devising several strategies for food procurement, among which food transfers and exchange play a key role. Through semi-structured and retrospective interviews with migrant workers, we…
Integrated pond aquaculture and regional identity
BackgroundSocial-ecological systems are based on particular species and on their direct and human-mediated interactions. The 'golden humped tench' ortinca gobba dorata, a variety of tench-Tinca tinca(L., 1758)-traditionally bred in artificial ponds calledpeschierein Poirino highlands, northwest Italy, is one of such species. The aim of the study is to investigate the traditional farming of the golden humped tench, the associated knowledge, practi…
Baby pangolins on my plate
The Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (JEET), throughout its 15 years of existence, has tried to provide a respected outlet for scientific knowledge concerning the inextricable links between human societies and nature, food, and health. Ethnobiology and ethnomedicine-centred research has moved at the (partially artificial and fictitious) interface between nature and culture and has investigated human consumption of wild foods and wild ani…
Interstitial but Resilient
The role of Nucularia perrinii Batt. (Chenopodiaceae) in the camel-based Sahrawi social-ecological system
BACKGROUND: Pastoral social-ecological systems (SESs) are adaptive and complex systems rooted in the extensive exploitation of forage plants for livestock-based livelihoods and culture. There are species and relations that are foundational to the existence of these SESs. Nucularia perrinii Batt. (Chenopodiaceae) is an endemic halophyte plant of central and western Sahara seldom cited in the scientific literature. The objective of this study was t…
Ethnoveterinary of Sahrawi pastoralists of Western Sahara
Pastoral populations around the world hold complex and detailed ethnoveterinary knowledge, essential for the survival of their herds and securing their livelihood. In recent decades, several studies have given attention to local veterinary remedies and practices and their validation, and to the local conceptualization of livestock diseases. Despite this, relatively little has been reported on indigenous knowledge of camel diseases (e.g., aetiolog…
Dormancy and Revitalization
Knowledge about forage is fundamental to the survival of pastoral populations around the world. In this paper, we address the knowledge of camel forage of Sahrawi nomads and refugees of Western Sahara. We analyze the distribution of this knowledge through cultural consensus analysis and develop an explanation for intra-cultural variation based on changing processes of knowledge transmission. In total, 100 plant species were free-listed by informa…
Eghindi Among Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara
Eghindi is an illness built around a set of pathological states experienced by Sahrawi in the desert environment of Western Sahara. Its core symptoms are caused by osmotic imbalances related to salt consumption. In 1975, many Sahrawi were exiled into refugee camps, and they have since experienced radical sociocultural changes, which are reflected in changing explanatory models of eghindi. Older and conservative refugees, attached to traditional S…
Peer Reviewers
A Reward for Patience and Suffering
In search of the perfect aphrodisiac
Healing war wounds and perfuming exile
Background Over the past decade, there has been growing interest within ethnobiology in the knowledge and practices of migrating people. Within this, scholars have given relatively less attention to displaced people and refugees: to the loss, maintenance, and adaptation of refugees' ethnobiological knowledge, and to its significance for refugees' wellbeing. This study focuses on cosmetics and remedies used to heal skin afflictions that are tradit…
Uses of medicinal plants by Haitian immigrants and their descendants in the Province of Camagüey, Cuba
BACKGROUND: Haitian migrants played an important role shaping Cuban culture and traditional ethnobotanical knowledge. An ethnobotanical investigation was conducted to collect information on medicinal plant use by Haitian immigrants and their descendants in the Province of Camagüey, Cuba. METHODS: Information was obtained from semi-structured interviews with Haitian immigrants and their descendants, direct observations, and by reviewing reports of…
Migration and Ethnobotanical Practices
Ethnobotanical knowledge and practices are dynamic and they change as they are transferred and appropriated by people who are adapting to new surroundings and changing environments. Using tifey, a multispecies drink, as a case study, we discuss the changes that emigration brought about related to tifey, and the processes that determined these changes. Tifey is a Haitian drink prepared by soaking Artemisia absinthium and other plants in rum or agu…
Herbal mixtures in the traditional medicine of Eastern Cuba
Ethnobotany of Pru , A Traditional Cuban Refreshment
Migration and Ethnobotanical Practices
Ethnobotanical knowledge and practices are dynamic and they change as they are transferred and appropriated by people who are adapting to new surroundings and changing environments. Using tifey, a multispecies drink, as a case study, we discuss the changes that emigration brought about related to tifey, and the processes that determined these changes. Tifey is a Haitian drink prepared by soaking Artemisia absinthium and other plants in rum or agu…
Uses of medicinal plants by Haitian immigrants and their descendants in the Province of Camagüey, Cuba
BACKGROUND: Haitian migrants played an important role shaping Cuban culture and traditional ethnobotanical knowledge. An ethnobotanical investigation was conducted to collect information on medicinal plant use by Haitian immigrants and their descendants in the Province of Camagüey, Cuba. METHODS: Information was obtained from semi-structured interviews with Haitian immigrants and their descendants, direct observations, and by reviewing reports of…
Baby pangolins on my plate
The Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (JEET), throughout its 15 years of existence, has tried to provide a respected outlet for scientific knowledge concerning the inextricable links between human societies and nature, food, and health. Ethnobiology and ethnomedicine-centred research has moved at the (partially artificial and fictitious) interface between nature and culture and has investigated human consumption of wild foods and wild ani…
A Reward for Patience and Suffering
Healing war wounds and perfuming exile
Background Over the past decade, there has been growing interest within ethnobiology in the knowledge and practices of migrating people. Within this, scholars have given relatively less attention to displaced people and refugees: to the loss, maintenance, and adaptation of refugees' ethnobiological knowledge, and to its significance for refugees' wellbeing. This study focuses on cosmetics and remedies used to heal skin afflictions that are tradit…
Ethnobotany of Pru , A Traditional Cuban Refreshment
The long reach of commodity frontiers
Conceptualizing global floriculture as a commodity frontier, this article explores rural-urban transfers and in loco production and exchange of food by migrant workers at Naivasha flower farms in Kenya. It highlights how food procurement strategies are central to the reproduction of a cheap labour force and are supported by multi-local family networks. Distant livelihoods and rural ecologies are thus tied to the frontier's interests and are embed…
Ethnoveterinary of Sahrawi pastoralists of Western Sahara
Pastoral populations around the world hold complex and detailed ethnoveterinary knowledge, essential for the survival of their herds and securing their livelihood. In recent decades, several studies have given attention to local veterinary remedies and practices and their validation, and to the local conceptualization of livestock diseases. Despite this, relatively little has been reported on indigenous knowledge of camel diseases (e.g., aetiolog…
The relational and dynamic nature of biocultural diversity. Foods and gastronomic knowledge in multi-ethnic migrants’ settlements in Naivasha, Kenya
In this study, we discuss the relational and dynamic nature of biocultural diversity in urban and multi-ethnic settlements inhabited by migrants working in flower and horticultural farms in Naivasha, Kenya. Migrants cope with vulnerable livelihoods and low wages by devising several strategies for food procurement, among which food transfers and exchange play a key role. Through semi-structured and retrospective interviews with migrant workers, we…
Relocalising agriculture and renewing agrobiodiversity in the Western Italian Alps through co-creation of agroecological knowledge and practices
Interstitial pastoralism at the economic frontier of Kenya's Central Rift Valley
This article explores pastoral change in Kenya's Central Rift Valley. It discusses how local pastoralists have adapted livestock mobility to a landscape subjected to the advancement of economic frontiers and rapid urbanization. We argue that the set of strategies deployed is constitutive of 'interstitial pastoralism.' This is present in many contemporary contexts where pastoralists are squeezed in the interstices of rangelands that they no longer…
Niches, Interstitiality and Impoverishment. Pastoralism Among Afghan Kochi Refugees in Mansehra, Northwest Pakistan
Integrated pond aquaculture and regional identity
BackgroundSocial-ecological systems are based on particular species and on their direct and human-mediated interactions. The 'golden humped tench' ortinca gobba dorata, a variety of tench-Tinca tinca(L., 1758)-traditionally bred in artificial ponds calledpeschierein Poirino highlands, northwest Italy, is one of such species. The aim of the study is to investigate the traditional farming of the golden humped tench, the associated knowledge, practi…
Eghindi Among Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara
Eghindi is an illness built around a set of pathological states experienced by Sahrawi in the desert environment of Western Sahara. Its core symptoms are caused by osmotic imbalances related to salt consumption. In 1975, many Sahrawi were exiled into refugee camps, and they have since experienced radical sociocultural changes, which are reflected in changing explanatory models of eghindi. Older and conservative refugees, attached to traditional S…
Herbal mixtures in the traditional medicine of Eastern Cuba
Ethnobotany of Pru , A Traditional Cuban Refreshment
Domestication Process of Two Solanum Section Lasiocarpa Species Among Amerindians in the Upper Orinoco, Venezuela, with Special Focus on Piaroa Indians
Uses of medicinal plants by Haitian immigrants and their descendants in the Province of Camagüey, Cuba
BACKGROUND: Haitian migrants played an important role shaping Cuban culture and traditional ethnobotanical knowledge. An ethnobotanical investigation was conducted to collect information on medicinal plant use by Haitian immigrants and their descendants in the Province of Camagüey, Cuba. METHODS: Information was obtained from semi-structured interviews with Haitian immigrants and their descendants, direct observations, and by reviewing reports of…
Migration and Ethnobotanical Practices
Ethnobotanical knowledge and practices are dynamic and they change as they are transferred and appropriated by people who are adapting to new surroundings and changing environments. Using tifey, a multispecies drink, as a case study, we discuss the changes that emigration brought about related to tifey, and the processes that determined these changes. Tifey is a Haitian drink prepared by soaking Artemisia absinthium and other plants in rum or agu…
In search of the perfect aphrodisiac
Healing war wounds and perfuming exile
Background Over the past decade, there has been growing interest within ethnobiology in the knowledge and practices of migrating people. Within this, scholars have given relatively less attention to displaced people and refugees: to the loss, maintenance, and adaptation of refugees' ethnobiological knowledge, and to its significance for refugees' wellbeing. This study focuses on cosmetics and remedies used to heal skin afflictions that are tradit…
Peer Reviewers
A Reward for Patience and Suffering
Dormancy and Revitalization
Knowledge about forage is fundamental to the survival of pastoral populations around the world. In this paper, we address the knowledge of camel forage of Sahrawi nomads and refugees of Western Sahara. We analyze the distribution of this knowledge through cultural consensus analysis and develop an explanation for intra-cultural variation based on changing processes of knowledge transmission. In total, 100 plant species were free-listed by informa…
Eghindi Among Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara
Eghindi is an illness built around a set of pathological states experienced by Sahrawi in the desert environment of Western Sahara. Its core symptoms are caused by osmotic imbalances related to salt consumption. In 1975, many Sahrawi were exiled into refugee camps, and they have since experienced radical sociocultural changes, which are reflected in changing explanatory models of eghindi. Older and conservative refugees, attached to traditional S…
Ethnoveterinary of Sahrawi pastoralists of Western Sahara
Pastoral populations around the world hold complex and detailed ethnoveterinary knowledge, essential for the survival of their herds and securing their livelihood. In recent decades, several studies have given attention to local veterinary remedies and practices and their validation, and to the local conceptualization of livestock diseases. Despite this, relatively little has been reported on indigenous knowledge of camel diseases (e.g., aetiolog…
The role of Nucularia perrinii Batt. (Chenopodiaceae) in the camel-based Sahrawi social-ecological system
BACKGROUND: Pastoral social-ecological systems (SESs) are adaptive and complex systems rooted in the extensive exploitation of forage plants for livestock-based livelihoods and culture. There are species and relations that are foundational to the existence of these SESs. Nucularia perrinii Batt. (Chenopodiaceae) is an endemic halophyte plant of central and western Sahara seldom cited in the scientific literature. The objective of this study was t…
Interstitial but Resilient
Baby pangolins on my plate
The Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (JEET), throughout its 15 years of existence, has tried to provide a respected outlet for scientific knowledge concerning the inextricable links between human societies and nature, food, and health. Ethnobiology and ethnomedicine-centred research has moved at the (partially artificial and fictitious) interface between nature and culture and has investigated human consumption of wild foods and wild ani…
Perceptions and Revitalization of Local Ecological Knowledge in Four Schools in Yasin Valley, North Pakistan
Mountains are often recognized as sites of biocultural diversity, and local ecological knowledge (LEK) is an integral part of community life. Rapid cultural standardization and urbanization have threatened biocultural diversity, posing threats to LEK in mountain areas. The current study aimed to gather data on the status of LEK in the Yasin Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, and discuss options with the local population for revitalizing LEK in f…
The relighting of community ovens in the Western Italian Alps as a process of commoning
Commons and commoning have been historically instrumental in sustaining livelihoods in Alpine areas. After decades of abandonment and oblivion, a process of repopulation is instilling new life there, with community building emerging from new and old highlanders’ commoning. Focusing an anthropological lens on these processes, this study investigates community ovens in the Western Italian Alps as commons, and their relighting as a process of common…
The relational and dynamic nature of biocultural diversity. Foods and gastronomic knowledge in multi-ethnic migrants’ settlements in Naivasha, Kenya
In this study, we discuss the relational and dynamic nature of biocultural diversity in urban and multi-ethnic settlements inhabited by migrants working in flower and horticultural farms in Naivasha, Kenya. Migrants cope with vulnerable livelihoods and low wages by devising several strategies for food procurement, among which food transfers and exchange play a key role. Through semi-structured and retrospective interviews with migrant workers, we…
Integrated pond aquaculture and regional identity
BackgroundSocial-ecological systems are based on particular species and on their direct and human-mediated interactions. The 'golden humped tench' ortinca gobba dorata, a variety of tench-Tinca tinca(L., 1758)-traditionally bred in artificial ponds calledpeschierein Poirino highlands, northwest Italy, is one of such species. The aim of the study is to investigate the traditional farming of the golden humped tench, the associated knowledge, practi…
Niches, Interstitiality and Impoverishment. Pastoralism Among Afghan Kochi Refugees in Mansehra, Northwest Pakistan
The long reach of commodity frontiers
Conceptualizing global floriculture as a commodity frontier, this article explores rural-urban transfers and in loco production and exchange of food by migrant workers at Naivasha flower farms in Kenya. It highlights how food procurement strategies are central to the reproduction of a cheap labour force and are supported by multi-local family networks. Distant livelihoods and rural ecologies are thus tied to the frontier's interests and are embed…
Interstitial pastoralism at the economic frontier of Kenya's Central Rift Valley
This article explores pastoral change in Kenya's Central Rift Valley. It discusses how local pastoralists have adapted livestock mobility to a landscape subjected to the advancement of economic frontiers and rapid urbanization. We argue that the set of strategies deployed is constitutive of 'interstitial pastoralism.' This is present in many contemporary contexts where pastoralists are squeezed in the interstices of rangelands that they no longer…
Desert Entanglements
Chapter 7. Relationality and Multispecies Agency in the Badiya
Relocalising agriculture and renewing agrobiodiversity in the Western Italian Alps through co-creation of agroecological knowledge and practices
Geography (22 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Biology (15 obras) · Archaeology (12 obras) · Ecology (12 obras) · Agriculture (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · African Botany and Ecology Studies (8 obras) · Livelihood (7 obras) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (6 obras)