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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Black, Rachel, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wine and wine making--Social aspects.

Wine and wine making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 323 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.-- Source other than Library of Congress.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-318) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781472520753

1472520750

9780857854209

0857854208

OCLC:

853507784