Wine and Culture: Vineyard to Glass - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0857854003 ISBN 13: 9780857854001

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

Rachel E. Black is assistant professor and coordinator of the Gastronomy Program at Boston University, USA. She editedAlcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2011) and has a forthcoming monographPorta 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857854003
• ISBN 13: 9780857854001
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 332
• Redattore: Black Rachel E.