{"pk":40993,"title":"Il pane del Mediterraneo: profano e sacro","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this exciting anticipation of his new research project on bread culture in the Mediterranean, Pedrag Matvejević, paints a vivid picture of this primordial “product of nature and culture.” Bread participated in the settlement of nomad populations and the transformation of hunters into pastors, and of both into peasant; later it was used to distinguish civilized people from barbarians. Soon a uniform ritual culture formed around bread and spread across the Mediterranean. In this spreading of bread culture Mediterranean islands came to play a key role, and they continue to preserve some of these most ancient traditions up to the present day.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wt2v4ps","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Pedrag","middle_name":"","last_name":"Matvejevic","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ca Foscari, Venezia","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2009-06-01T09:00:00+02:00","date_accepted":"2009-06-01T09:00:00+02:00","date_published":"2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40993/galley/30668/download/"}]}