Wine and culture [electronic resource] : vineyard to glass / edited by Rachel E. Black and Robert C. Ulin.

ISBN:

9781350042254

Title:

Author:

Black, Rachel, 1975- editor.

Publication Information:

London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 323 p.) : ill.

Contents:

I. Rethinking Terroir. The social life of Terroir among Bordeaux winemakers / Sarah Daynes -- The things that count : rethinking Terroir in Australia / Robert Swinburn -- Space and Terroir in the Chilean wine industry / Nicolas Sternsdorff Cisterna -- Terroir and locality : an anthropological perspective / Robert C. Ulin -- II. Relationships of power and the construction of place. Tasting wine in Slovakia : postsocialist elite consumption of cultural particularities / Juraj Buzalka -- Wine histories, wine memories, and local identities in western Poland / Ewa Kopczyńska -- El Sabor de Galicia : wine as performance in Galicia, Spain / Christina M. Ceisel -- "Local, loyal and constant" : the legal construction of wine in Bordeaux / Erica A. Farmer -- Cultural patrimony and the bureaucratization of wine : the Bulgarian case / Yuson Jung -- III. Labor, commodification, and the politics of wine. Following Grands Crus : global markets, transnational histories, and wine / Marion Demossier -- Georgian wine : the transformation of socialist quantity into postsocialist quality / Adam Walker and Paul Manning -- Regimes of regulation, gender, and divisions of labor in Languedoc viticulture / Winnie Lem -- IV. Technology and nature. Pursuits of quality in the vineyards : French oenologists at work in Lebanon / Elizabeth Saleh -- The artifice of natural wine : Jules Chauvet and the reinvention of vinification in postwar France / Paul Cohen -- Vino Naturale : tensions between nature and technology in the glass / Rachel E. Black.

Subject Term:

Wine and wine making -- Social aspects.

Wine and wine making -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01175935

Added Author:

Black, Rachel, 1975-

Ulin, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1951-

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2013

Publication Information:

London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

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Summary

Wine is one of the most celebrated and appreciated commodities around the world. Wine writers and scientists tell us much about varieties of wines, winegrowing estates, the commercial value and the biochemistry of wine, but seldom address the cultural, social, and historical conditions through which wine is produced and represented. This path-breaking collection of essays by leading anthropologists looks not only at the product but also beyond this to disclose important social and cultural issues that inform the production and consumption of wine. The authors show that wine offers a window onto a variety of cultural, social, political and economic issues throughout the world. The global scope of these essays demonstrates the ways in which wine changes as an object of study, commodity and symbol in different geographical and cultural contexts. This book is unique in covering the latest ethnography, theoretical and ethnohistorical research on wine throughout the globe. Four central themes emerge in this collection: terroir ; power and place; commodification and politics; and technology and nature. The essays in each section offer broad frameworks for looking at current research with wine at the core.

Author Notes

Rachel E. Black is assistant professor and coordinator of the Gastronomy Program at Boston University, USA. She edited Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2011) and has a forthcoming monograph Porta Palazzo: Food, Place and Community at the market (University of Pennsylvania Press) that is an ethnographic study of an open-air market in Italy. Robert C. Ulin is Professor of Anthropology at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA where he also served for two years as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Prior to coming to RIT, Ulin served as Chair of Anthropology at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Vintages and Traditions and numerous articles on the anthropology of wine. He is also well known for his work on hermeneutics, critical theory and historical anthropology.