Keeping or changing? Two different cultural adaptation strategies in the domestic use of home country food plant and herbal ingredients among Albanian and Moroccan migrants in Northwestern Italy

Keeping or changing? Two different cultural adaptation strategies in the domestic use of home country food plant and herbal ingredients among Albanian and Moroccan migrants in Northwestern Italy

Abstract Background Ethnobotanical field studies concerning migrant groups are crucial for understanding temporal changes of folk plant knowledge as well as for analyzing adaptation processes. Italy still lacks in-depth studies on migrant food habits that also evaluate the ingredients which newcomer...

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Main Authors: Michele Fontefrancesco, Charles Barstow, Francesca Grazioli, Hillary Lyons, Giulia Mattalia, Mattia Marino, Anne E. McKay, Renata Sõukand, Paolo Corvo, Andrea Pieroni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Subjects:
Migrants’ food
Ethnobotany
Albanians
Moroccans
Piedmont
Italy
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13002-019-0290-7

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