%0 Journal Article %T Un r¨¦gime m¨¦diterran¨¦en bon ¨¤ penser The good Mediterranean diet : medical and social readability of food practices among Italian migrants in the United-States and Switzerland (20th century) %A Salvatore Bevilacqua %J Anthropology of Food %D 2010 %I Anthropology of Food %X Les habitudes alimentaires des Italiens install¨¦s aux Etats-Unis et en Suisse ont ¨¦t¨¦ int¨¦ress¨¦es au cours du 20e si¨¨cle par une mutation de l¡¯attitude des soci¨¦t¨¦s h tes, hier hostiles mais aujourd¡¯hui largement impr¨¦gn¨¦es de cet h¨¦ritage gastronomique. D¨¦crypt¨¦ nagu¨¨re ¨¤ travers certains poncifs assign¨¦s aux peuples m¨¦ridionaux (irrationalit¨¦, pusillanimit¨¦, etc.), le pr¨¦sum¨¦ conservatisme culinaire des Italiens, du Sud en particulier, y ¨¦tait per u comme un syndrome quasi pathologique, devenant la cible des politiques sociales et de sant¨¦. Avec le temps, cette culture alimentaire sans qualit¨¦s s¡¯est vue amend¨¦e du stigmate de son origine puis ennoblie par la promotion du mod¨¨le de consommation dit m¨¦diterran¨¦en. La d¨¦construction diachronique des lectures am¨¦ricaines et helv¨¦tiques des habitudes alimentaires des migrants italiens met en exergue, outre l¡¯inversion de certaines cat¨¦gories normatives, un rapport de (bio)pouvoir sp¨¦cifique entre culture d¡¯accueil et d¡¯origine soulevant l¡¯utilit¨¦ d¡¯une r¨¦flexion ¨¦pist¨¦mologique sur la construction sociale actuelle de la sant¨¦ et du go t m¨¦diterran¨¦ens . Dietary habits of Italians settled in the US and in Switzerland have been interested during the 20th century by a mutation of host society attitude, formerly hostile but now full of this gastronomic heritage. The presumed culinary conservatism of southern Italians, represented through classical clich¨¦s (irrationality, pusillanimity, etc.), was diagnosed as a pathological-like syndrome and became in that sense a target for social and health policies. With the passing of time, this propertiless dietary culture lost the infamous marks of its origins and got ennobled by the promotion of the Mediterranean consumption model. The diachronic deconstruction of American and Swiss interpretations of Italian migrants dietary habits underline, besides the inversion of some normative categories, a specific relation of (bio)power between host and native cultures. This analysis raises the interest of an epistemological reflexion about the current social construction of Mediterranean health and taste. %K Italian food %K Italo-American immigration %K Italo-Swiss immigration %K Mediterranean diet %K medical ethnocentrism %K alimentation italienne %K immigration italo-am¨¦ricaine %K immigration italo-suisse %K r¨¦gime m¨¦diterran¨¦en %K ethnocentrisme m¨¦dical %U http://aof.revues.org/6600