Table of 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

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This path-breaking collection by leading scholars in the field explores the cultural, social and historical issues which inform both the production and consumption of wine.

About the Author

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

Reviews

This collection is a heady investigation of wine as a sociocultural and historical commodity in diverse global sites. Fifteen engaging articles show how the ethnographic study of wine penetrates beyond the bottle to reveal labor relations, power structures, market forces, and deeply held meanings about identity and place.
*Carole Counihan, author of 'Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence' and editor-in-chief of 'Food and Foodways'*

This collection represents the first of its kind to focus on wine from a sociocultural perspective while bringing together current approaches to questions of identity, culture, authenticity, craft and technology, and the senses. Like terroir itself, this collection roots the taste of wine in places, in the history and emergence of new landscapes of tastes, and the changing social and environmental relations of its production, dissemination and consumption. Uncork it for yourself and see!
*David Sutton, Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, USA*

Given its global, economic, social and cultural importance, it's astonishing that the anthropology of wine has been so neglected for so long. This splendid collection of incisive essays goes a long way towards establishing key issues in this emerging field, many of which are also relevant to contemporary anthropology in general.
*Jeremy MacClancy, Professor of Social Anthropoology, Dept of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, uk*