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Crafting the culture and history of French chocolate / Susan J. Terrio.
LIBRA TX817.C4 T47 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Terrio, Susan J. (Susan Jane), 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chocolate--History.
- Chocolate.
- History.
- Chocolate--France--History.
- Chocolate industry--History.
- Chocolate industry.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 313 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- This narrative follows the craft community of French chocolatiers -- members of a tiny group experiencing intense international competition -- as they struggle to ensure the survival of their businesses. Susan J. Terrio moves easily among ethnography, history, theory, and vignette, telling a story that challenges conventional views of craft work, associational forms, and training models in late capitalism. She enters the world of craft leaders and local artisanal families in Paris and in southwest France to relate how they work and how they confront the representatives and structures of power, from tastemakers, CEOs, and advertising executives to the technocrats of Paris and Brussels.
- Looking at craft culture and community from a cross-disciplinary perspective, Terrio finds that the chocolatiers affirm their collective identity and their place in the present by commemorating selectively their role in history. In addition to joining a distinguished tradition of American anthropological writing on the role of food, her study of the social production of taste in the invention of vintage grand cru chocolates lends specificity and weight to theories of consumption by Pierre Bourdieu and others. The book will appeal to anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and anyone curious about life in contemporary France.
- Contents:
- 2 Bread and Chocolate 23
- 3 Reeducating French Palates 40
- 4 Unsettling Memories: The Politics of Commemoration 66
- 5 What's in a Name? 101
- 6 "Our craft is beautiful ..." 128
- 7 Craft as Community, Chocolate as Spectacle 147
- 8 From Craft to Profession? 183
- 9 Defending the Local 217
- 10 Chocolate as Self and Other 237.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-302) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520221257
- 0520221265
- OCLC:
- 42420781
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