Nuno Domingos befasst sich mit den Feinheiten gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Praktiken, mit einem besonderen Schwerpunkt auf der Geschichte des portugiesischen Kolonialismus und der Estado Novo-Ära. Seine Arbeit untersucht die Soziologie des Lesens, der Musik und des Sports und analysiert körperliche Praktiken und Volkskulturen. Derzeit erforscht er die Anthropologie der Ernährung und untersucht die Produktion und sozialen Nutzung portugiesischen Weins. Seine wissenschaftliche Arbeit bietet eine faszinierende Perspektive, um zu verstehen, wie gesellschaftliche Strukturen und kulturelle Ausdrucksformen in verschiedenen historischen Kontexten miteinander verknüpft sind.
In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist Jose Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenco Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive ends.
At a time when the relationship between ‘the country' and ‘the city' is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams' classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect their changing relationship but have also been used to alter the very dynamics through which countryside and cities, and the food grown and eaten within them, are produced and sustained. Leading scholars in the study of food offer ethnographic studies of peasant homesteads, family farms, community gardens, state food industries, transnational supermarkets, planning offices, tourist boards, and government ministries in locales across the globe. This fascinating collection demonstrates that, whether categorized as rural or urban, food around the world today has been shaped by, and in turn has shaped, historical processes through which the country, the city, and the relationship between these places and their foods have continually, and sometimes dramatically, been reconstituted. This text provides vital new insight into the contested dynamics of food and will be key reading for upper-level students and scholars of food studies, anthropology, history and geography.