The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America

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Univ of California Press, 10 dec. 2012 - 303 sidor
Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather PaxsonÕs beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a world in which their colleagues and collaborators are a wild cast of characters, including plants, animals, microorganisms, family members, employees, and customers. As ÒunfinishedÓ commodities, living products whose qualities are not fully settled, handmade cheeses embody a mix of new and old ideas about taste and value. By exploring the life of cheese, Paxson helps rethink the politics of food, land, and labor today.
 

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Ecologies of Production
30
Economies of Sentiment
63
traditions of invention
95
The art and Science of Craft
128
Microbiopolitics
158
Place taste and the Promise of Terroir
187
Bellwether
213
Bibliography
261
Index
285
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Om författaren (2012)

Heather Paxson, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of Making Modern Mothers: Ethics and Family Planning in Urban Greece (UC Press).

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