The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture

Synopsis

The link between culture and wine reaches back into the earliest history of humanity. The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture brings together a newly comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of contemporary research and thinking on how wine fits into the cultural frameworks of production, intermediation and consumption. Bringing together many leading researchers engaged in studying these phenomena, it explores the different ways in which wine is constructed as a social artefact and how its representation and use acquire symbolic meaning. Wine can be analysed in different ways by varying disciplines involved in exploring wine and culture (anthropology, economics and business, geography, history and sociology, and as text). The Handbook uses these as lenses to consider how producers, intermediaries and consumers use and create cultural significance. Specifically, the work addresses the following: how wine relates to place, belief systems and accompanying rituals; how it may be used as a marker of the identity and mechanisms of civilising processes (often in conjunction with food and the arts); how its framing intersects with science and nature; the ideologies and power relations which arise around all these activities; and the relation of this to wine markets and public institutions. This is essential reading for researchers and students in education for the wine industry and in the humanities and social sciences engaged in understanding patterns of human ingenuity and interaction, such as sociology, anthropology, health, geography, business, tourism, cultural studies, food studies and history.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

472 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000533958

Related ISBNs:

9781003034711, 9781032198071, 9780367472900

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/26/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Steve Charters, Marion Demossier, Jacqueline Dutton, Graham Harding, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Denton Marks and Tim Unwin

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Travel, Business and Finance

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Steve Charters

Edited by:

Marion Demossier

Edited by:

Jacqueline Dutton

Edited by:

Graham Harding

Edited by:

Jennifer Smith Maguire

Edited by:

Denton Marks

Edited by:

Tim Unwin