Peixe, Patria e Possibilidades Portuguesas

“Fish, Homeland, and Portuguese Possibilities”

Bibliographic Data

ID12369513
AuthorsLori Danielle Barcliff Baptista (The Performance Institute, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume29
Issue1
Pages60-76
Publication date2008-12-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueText and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10462930802514354
OpenAlexW2045425794
LanguagePT
Citations received2
References cited16

This essay explores the relationship between food and identity performances within a segment of a Portuguese transnational community with social, economic, and political ties to both the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, and many of the rural villages of Portugal. I examine how some Portuguese-Americans in Newark's Ironbound use bacalhau (salt cod) to perform their identities. Combining ethnographic, historical, and historiographic research methods, I consider how bacalhau operates within a complex system of performance practices and epistemologies through which many Portuguese-Americans situate themselves in relation to past, present, and future time and space

Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Ethnography · Ethnology · Fish · Fishery · Homeland · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Relation (database · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture

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