Plenty of Fish in This Sea: Sifting the Past in the Northeastern Adriatic

Abstract

The paper discusses heritagization, remembering, and past presencing in the North East Adriatic through the four fish species that serve as nodal points in the interplay between the past and the present. Following the selected fish species, the paper explores the diversity of imaginaries that pertain to the mediation of the past in the present in the field of ethnological study in the North East Adriatic.

Food Heritage-Making Between the Alps and the Adriatic

“…6 Slednji postavljajo merila univerzalnosti in enkratnosti, ki so povečini uglašena s širšimi družbeno-ekonomskimi politikami in vpeta v aktualna razmerja moči (Smith 2006). Za razloček od dediščinjenja sta spominjanje in sedanjenje preteklosti, kakor v prispevku »Morje mnogih rib« ugotavljajo Nataša Rogelja Caf, Janko Spreizer in Martina Bofulin (2020), manj institucionalizirana in manj strateška procesa. Avtorice so na primeru štirih jadranskih rib različne načine odbiranja preteklosti (tj.…”

“…5 These set the universality and uniqueness criteria, which are largely harmonized with the broader socioeconomic policies and embedded in the current power relations (Smith 2006). In contract to heritagization-as established by Rogelja et al (2020) in their article "Plenty of Fish in the Sea"-remembering and past presencing are processes that are less institutionalized and strategic. The authors compare various methods of selecting the past (i.e., remembering, heritagization, and past presencing) against the local special features or everyday dispositions of coexisting with the past (defined as undigested histories, blurring, and distancing), through analyses of various imageries in which sea bass, mullets, sardines, and tuna "swim.…”