The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America

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The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America

Name: The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America
ISBN: 9780520270176

Heather Paxson

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Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson’s 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 "unfinished" 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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Society, Politics & Philosophy

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Ano:

2013

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University of California Press

Idioma:

english

Páginas:

332