From Multi-Sited Ethnography to Food Heritage

What Theoretical and Methodological Challenges for Anthropology

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5830278
AutoresCharles-Édouard De Suremain (0000-0001-5547-5781, Patrimoines locaux, Environnement et Globalisation, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Fascículo24
Páginas7-32
Data de publicação2019-12-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRevista del CESLA International Latin American Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1641-4713 • E-ISSN: 2081-1160
EditoraUniversity of Warsaw (PUBLISHER • PL)
DOI10.36551/2081-1160.2019.24.7-32
OpenAlexW3005802956
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas53

Through three Latin American examples, the paradigmatic notion of "multi-sited ethnography" is put to the test in relation to food heritage. After recalling its cultural and historical antecedents in Europe and Latin America, a first set of tensions between "institutionalized heritage" and "ordinary heritage" are analyzed. The phenomena of contestation (Bolivia) that food heritage produces among the most modest populations shows that the wide range of its meanings and uses depend on the context and local issues. Consequently, the potentially contentious relationships between various actors within heritage, gastronomic tourism, and development are highlighted. For this purpose, the example of "female traditional cooks" and "gastronomic routes" in Mexico is used as a starting point. Through these examples, the advantages and limitations of the multi-sited approach and its implications for ethnographic work on food heritage are discussed. Specifically, emphasis is put on the conditions of its implementation by revisiting how it differs from the comparative approach, transnationalization and "glocal" analysis. Finally, some theoretical and methodological avenues for further exploration in the critical anthropology of food heritagization are suggested

Cultural anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Identity and Heritage