Wine and culture
Subtitle: vineyard to glass
By: edited by Rachel E. Black and Robert C. Ulin
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780857854001; 9780857854018; 9780857854209; 9781472520753
Subjects: Weinbau; Önologie; Wine and wine making; Wein; Social aspects; Weinherstellung
Description: This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the cultural, social and historical issues which inform the production and consumption of wine. It covers the latest ethnography, theoretical and ethnohistorical research on wine throughout the globe.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Rethinking Terroir. The social life of Terroir among Bordeaux winemakers / Sarah Daynes; title: The things that count : rethinking Terroir in Australia / Robert Swinburn; title: Space and Terroir in the Chilean wine industry / Nicolas Sternsdorff Cisterna; title: Terroir and locality : an anthropological perspective / Robert C. Ulin; title: II. Relationships of power and the construction of place. Tasting wine in Slovakia : postsocialist elite consumption of cultural particularities / Juraj Buzalka; title: Wine histories, wine memories, and local identities in western Poland / Ewa Kopczyńska; title: El Sabor de Galicia : wine as performance in Galicia, Spain / Christina M. Ceisel; title: "Local, loyal and constant" : the legal construction of wine in Bordeaux / Erica A. Farmer; title: Cultural patrimony and the bureaucratization of wine : the Bulgarian case / Yuson Jung; title: III. Labor, commodification, and the politics of wine. Following Grands Crus : global markets, transnational histories, and wine / Marion Demossier; title: Georgian wine : the transformation of socialist quantity into postsocialist quality / Adam Walker and Paul Manning; title: Regimes of regulation, gender, and divisions of labor in Languedoc viticulture / Winnie Lem; title: IV. Technology and nature. Pursuits of quality in the vineyards : French oenologists at work in Lebanon / Elizabeth Saleh; title: The artifice of natural wine : Jules Chauvet and the reinvention of vinification in postwar France / Paul Cohen; title: Vino Naturale : tensions between nature and technology in the glass / Rachel E. Black.