The life of cheese : crafting food and value in America /
Heather Paxson.
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , c2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (322 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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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| ISBN | 0-520-95402-5. - 1-283-64634-X. - 1-78402-443-0
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