Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction - Rachel Black (Boston University, USA) and Robert Ulin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Section One - Rethinking Terroir
Section Introduction - Robert Ulin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
The Social Life of Terroir among Bordeaux Winemakers - Sarah Daynes (University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA)
Rethinking Terroir in Australia - Robert Swinburn (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Space and Terroir in the Chilean Wine Industry - Nicolas Sternsdorff (Harvard University, USA)
Terroir and Locality: An Anthropological Perspective - Robert Ulin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Section Two - Relationships of Power and the Construction of Place
Section Introduction - Rachel Black (Boston University, USA)
Tasting Wine in Slovakia: Post-socialist Elite Cultural Particularities - Juraj Buzalka (Comenius University, Bratislava)
Wine Histories, Wine Memories and Local Identities in Western Poland - Ewa Kopczynska (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
El Sabor de Galicia: Wine as Performance in Galicia, Spain - Christina Ceisel (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Local, Loyal and Constant: The Legal Construction of Wine in Bordeaux - Erica Farmer (University College London, UK)
Traces of the Past: Cultural Patrimony and the Bureaucratization of Wine - Yuson Jung (Wayne State University, USA)
Section Three - Labor, Commodification and the Politics of Wine
Section Introduction - Robert Ulin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Following Grands Crus: Global Markets, Transnational Histories and Wine - Marion Demossier (University of Southampton, UK)
Georgian Wine: The Transformation of Socialist Quantity into Post-socialist Quality - Adam Walker (City University of New York Graduate School, USA) and Paul Manning (Trent University)
Regimes of Regulation, Gender and Divisions of Labor in Languedoc Viticulture - Winnie Lem (Trent University, Canada)
Section Four - Technology and Nature
Section Introduction - Rachel Black, (Boston University, USA)
Pursuits of Quality in the Vineyards: French Oenologists at Work in Lebanon - Elizabeth Saleh (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
The Artifice of Natural Wine: Jules Chauvet and the Reinvention of Vinification in Postwar France - Paul Cohen (University of Toronto, Canada)
Vino Naturale: Tensions Between Nature and Technology in the Glass - Rachel Black (Boston University, USA)
Contributor Biographies
Bibliography
