Day: November 3, 2015

Naples

  Margaret Hills de Zarate’s research involves an examination of the role of objects in mediating constructions of identity in relation to Italian transgenerational migration.  One research question is how processes of translation occur within material culture, in particular, those processes that are intermedial and relate to leaving and arriving. These photographs, taken in the Quartieri Spagnoli in Naples constitute part…Continue Reading Naples

Food and Italianness

The English definition of ‘authentic’ relies on Italian food as an example: Oxford English Dictionary | AUTHENTIC (adj) ‘of undisputed origin and not a copy; genuine: “the letter is now accepted as an authentic document”; made or done in the traditional or original way, or in a way that faithfully resembles an original: “the restaurant…Continue Reading Food and Italianness