The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture torrent

The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture



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English | 594 pages | Routledge; 1st edition (March 2, 2022) | 0367472902 | PDF | 40.51 Mb

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 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 of these activities; the relation of this to wine markets and public institutions.