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Saline Foodscape of the Island of Pag: White Gold of the Adriatic Sea

By understanding foodscape as a theoretical framework and as a “dynamic social construct that connects food with physical space, social groups or individuals and the meanings they attach to it” (Adema 2008 ; Belasco, Scranton 2002 ; Johnston, Baumann 2014, Jackson and CONANX Group 2013), I will try to understand the meaning of some food products (lamb, cheese, salt) of the Island of Pag which can be recognized as symbols of the Mediterranean diet as well as the identity heritage markers of the island. In this presentation, I will focus on the production and distribution of salt in the salt factory attached to the town of Pag which goes back to the distant past. Cultural and anthropological perspective will help me to understand and show the influence of the salt factory to the local community in the past but also in present days.

foodscape ; Island of Pag ; cultural and anthropological perspective ; salt

Program skupa: https://iuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr/wp- content/uploads/2021/03/final-program-13.3.pdf