{"product_id":"the-routledge-handbook-of-wine-and-culture-9780367472900","title":"The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis title was a prize winner at the OIV (International Organisation of Vine and Wine) Awards 2023.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe link between culture and wine reaches back into the earliest history of humanity.\u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e brings together a newly comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of contemporary research and thinking on how wine fits into the cultural frameworks of production, intermediationand consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing 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\u003cem\u003eHandbook\u003c\/em\u003e uses these as lenses to consider how producers, intermediaries and consumers use and create cultural significance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Food and eating as a component of culture has been a prosperous field of study for the last few decades. For myself, I always felt a bit daunted at taking on the often esoteric-seeming culture of wine. But in this book, the international, interdisciplinary and learned team of editors have produced a wonderful introduction to the field that allays all anxieties. It is an impressive collection, and written in a lively fashion.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephen Mennell, author of \u003ci\u003eAll Manners of Food\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University College Dublin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'With a massive all star cast of social scientists and more this new compendium does nothing less than show how that heavenly beverage, wine, touches every part of the culture of much of the world. ‎Extravagantly edited and carefully written, this is a handbook for the ages.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrley Ashenfelter, Princeton University, American Association of Wine Economists (President), and Editorial Boards, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Wine Economics \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJournal of Cultural Economics\u003c\/i\u003e​.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An enchanting and authoritative sampling, or tasting, or wine aspect of wine lore and information. Not just about production and consumption, the \u003ci\u003eHandbook \u003c\/i\u003eevokes creative thinking about wine in society, economy and personal life.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Dept. of History, Yale University.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Wine culture can be intimidating. Happily, we now have a Handbook that puts out the welcome mat for newcomers, but also provides nuanced analysis for seasoned wine scholars. This broad-reaching compendium walks readers through the transnational expanse of wine culture that touches business, economics, geography, history. The multidisciplinary team helps us to appreciate wine as a material good but also a cultural product embedded in ideologies and power relations. It is an indispensable touchstone for future research on wine.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJosée Johnston, co-author of \u003ci\u003eFoodies\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"More than a handbook, this volume is an invitation to explore wine as a cultural object and phenomenon. From anthropology to economics, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the culture of wine from novel perspectives. The reader can delve into the colonial past and legacy of wine, engage with current environmental issues or think about what the future might hold for the production of wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShowing that wine is good to think, this volume will appeal to wine lovers and scholars alike. The quality of the writing and the breadth of the topics make this handbook an excellent resource for anyone interested in delving into the cultural importance of wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture \u003c\/i\u003eis an excellent addition to the growing scholarship on wine and culture. What is particularly remarkable about this volume is the breadth of the topics covered and the complementary nature of the interdisciplinary research. This work is a wonderful addition to academic and home libraries.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRachel Black, Associate Editor of \u003cem\u003eFood and Foodways, \u003c\/em\u003eAssociate Professor, Anthropology Dept., Connecticut College.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. \u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart I- Context: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisciplinary Perspectives On Wine And Culture. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1Anthropology, Wine and Culture. 2.Business, Wine and Culture. 3.Economics, Wine and Culture. 4.Geography, Wine and Culture. 5.History, Wine and Culture. 6.Sociology, Wine and Culture. 7.Text, Wine and Culture. \u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart II- Production and Place. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e8.Cultures of Terroir. 9.Sites and Sights of Production: Spaces and Performances of Winemaking. 10.Wine Islands: Colonial Cultures of the Vine. 11.Expressing Sense of Place and Terroir through Wine to Tourism Encounters: Antipodal Reflections from France to New Zealand. 12.Wine, Culture and Environment: A Study of the Sierra (Nevada) Foothills American Viticultural Area. 13.Making Wine, Making Home. 14.Climats and the Crafting of Heritage Value in Burgundy Terroir. 15.Wine, Deep in the Heart of Texas. \u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart III- Intermediation and Consumption. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e16.Characters of Wine: The Cultural Meanings of Typefaces and Fonts in Wine Labels. 17.Making the Right Impression: Irish Wine Culture c.1700 to Present. 18.Wine as part of Polish Identity in Early Modern Times. Constructing Wine Culture in Non-Wine Countries. 19.The Shape of Luxury: Three Centuries of the Champagne Glass in British Material Culture. 20.‘For Us as Experimentalists’: An Australian Case Study of Scientific Values in the 19th Century New World Winegrowing. 21.Tasting as Expertise: Scientific Agronomists and Sommeliers in France in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. 22.Wine Writing as Lifestyle Writing: Communicating Taste and Constructing Lifestyle in the Saturday Times Wine Column. 23.The (Practical) Economics of Selling Wine as a Cultural Good. 24.Champagne: A Global Symbol of Contemporary Consumer Culture. \u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart IV: Belief and Representation. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e25.Wine and Religion Part I: Antiquity to 1700. 26.Wine and Religion Part II: 1700 to the Present. 27.Wine as Metaphor. 28.New world wine and the evolution of universal, vernacular, metro-rural, and indigenous idylls. 29.Narratives of Science and Culture in Winemaking. 30.Applying Fashion Theory to Wine: A Production of Culture Example. 31.Spending, Taste and Knowledge: Logics of Connoisseurship and Good Taste in the Age of Cultural Democratisation. \u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart V: Power and Contestation. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e32.Competing and Complementary Utopias: Toward an Understanding of Entangled Wine Ideals. 33.Threats of Pleasure and Chaos: Wine and Gendered Social Order. 34.Women in Wine…Occasionally: Gender Roles in the Wine Industry. 35.Sustainable Wine: The Discursive Production of Sustainability in the Wine Field. 36.The Triumph of the Holy Trinity: Terrior, Typicity, and Quality Anchoring the AOC Model in the Second Half of the 20th Century. 37.What can Winemakers’ business models tell us about the cultural traits of wine regions? A Comparative analysis. 38.Repudiation Not Withstanding: Critics and the Case for Hybrid Grape Wines. 39.If It’s Famous, It Must Be Good: The Social Construction of Brand Value in the US Wine Market. \u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart VI: Change and the Future. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e40.The Internationalization of Winegrape Varieties and its Implication for Terroir-Based Cultural Assets. 41.Cultural Heritage and Migration in the Wine World. 42.The China Wine Market: How Wine is Gaining Cultural Value in Chinese Culture. 43.Beyond White: On Wine and Ethnicity. 44.Climate or Technical Change in Wine? Confronting Climatologists’ and Wine-Growers’ Analyses. 45.Winegrowing, Climate Change, and a Case for Biodynamic Viticulture. 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