Grasseni The Heritage Arena

Reinventing Cheese in the Italian Alps
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-295-1
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 5, 202 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Reihe: Food, Nutrition, and Culture

In Europe a number of production and communication strategies have long tried to establish local products as resources for local development. At the foot of the Alps, this scenario appears in all its contradictions, especially in relation to cheese production. The Heritage Arena focuses on the saga of Strachitunt, a cheese that has been designated an EU Protected Designation of Origin after years of negotiation and competition involving cheese-makers, merchants, and Slow Food activists. The book explores how the reinvention of cheese as a form of heritage is an ongoing and dynamic process rife with conflict and drama.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grasseni, Cristina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables, Figures and Maps

Acknowledgements

Introduction

 

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Why cheese?

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Calibrating cheese

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Post transhumant timescapes

PART I: THE WAR OF THE CHEESES

Chapter 1. Patrimonio and Tipicità

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The Entrepreneur as Sovereign

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The Language of Tipicità

Chapter 2. Cultures of Resistance

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The 'Mother of all Battles': Slow Food Bitto versus PDO Bitto

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The Niche PDO: Formai de Mut

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The Unachieved PDO: Branzi

Conclusion of Part I

PART II: WE, THE PEOPLE OF VAL TELEGGIO

Chapter 3. A geography of Opposites

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Straddling uplands and lowlands

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How Taleggio cheese failed the Taleggio valley

Chapter 4. The Best Cheese in Italy

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PDO Italian Style?

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The public trial of Strachitunt

Conclusion of Part II

PART III: DULCAMARA'S SENSES

Chapter 5. Marketing the Sensorium

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Slow Food and the Geometry of Val Taleggio

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Taliban and Improvers

Chapter 6.  Reinventing Stracchino

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Deciphering a Meal

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Performing Cheese

Conclusion of Part III



Conclusion

References

Über Autor(innen)

Grasseni, Cristina
Cristina Grasseni is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University.

Cristina Grasseni is a Professor of Anthropology at Leiden University (the Netherlands).