Wine drinking culture in France : a national myth or a modern passion?
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Wine drinking culture in France : a national myth or a modern passion?
（French and francophone studies / series editors, Hanna Diamond, Claire Gorrara）
University of Wales Press, c2010
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index
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: hardback ISBN 9780708322086
Description
This book provides a new interpretation of the relationship between consumption, drinking culture, memory and cultural identity in an age of rapid political and economic change. Using France as a case-study it explores the construction of a national drinking culture - the myths, symbols and practices surrounding it - and then through a multisited ethnography of wine consumption demonstrates how that culture is in the process of being transformed. Wine drinking culture in France has traditionally been a source of pride for the French and in an age of concerns about the dangers of 'binge-drinking', a major cause of jealousy for the British. Wine drinking and the culture associated with it are, for many, an essential part of what it means to be French, but they are also part of a national construction. Described by some as a national product, or as a 'totem drink', wine and its attendant cultures supposedly characterise Frenchness in much the same way as being born in France, fighting for liberty or speaking French. Yet this traditional picture is now being challenged by economic, social and political forces that have transformed consumption patterns and led to the fragmentation of wine drinking culture. The aim of this book is to provide an original account of the various causes of the long-term decline in alcohol consumption and of the emergence of a new wine drinking culture since the 1970s and to analyse its relationship to national and regional identity.
Table of Contents
Introduction Chapter one: Drink, Consumption and Identity Chapter two: Changes to a National Drinking Culture Chapter three: A new French Wine Drinking Culture? Chapter four: Contemporary Discourses and Representations Chapter five: Ethnographies and Contexts Chapter six: Passion for Wine and Life-Stories Chapter seven: Between Self-Reflexivity, Distinction and Social Connectedness Chapter eight: Globalisation, Nation and the Region, The New Wine Drinking Culture
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: pbk ISBN 9780708323212
Description
This book provides a new interpretation of the relationship between consumption, drinking culture, memory and cultural identity in an age of rapid political and economic change. Using France as a case-study it explores the construction of a national drinking culture -the myths, symbols and practices surrounding it- and then through a multisited ethnography of wine consumption demonstrates how that culture is in the process of being transformed. Wine drinking culture in France has traditionally been a source of pride for the French and in an age of concerns about the dangers of 'binge-drinking', a major cause of jealousy for the British. Wine drinking and the culture associated with it are, for many, an essential part of what it means to be French, but they are also part of a national construction. Described by some as a national product, or as a 'totem drink', wine and its attendant cultures supposedly characterise Frenchness in much the same way as being born in France, fighting for liberty or speaking French. Yet this traditional picture is now being challenged by economic, social and political forces that have transformed consumption patterns and led to the fragmentation of wine drinking culture. The aim of this book is to provide an original account of the various causes of the long-term decline in alcohol consumption and of the emergence of a new wine drinking culture since the 1970s and to analyse its relationship to national and regional identity.
Table of Contents
Introduction Chapter one: Drink, Consumption and Identity Chapter two: Changes to a National Drinking Culture Chapter three: A new French Wine Drinking Culture? Chapter four: Contemporary Discourses and Representations Chapter five: Ethnographies and Contexts Chapter six: Passion for Wine and Life-Stories Chapter seven: Between Self-Reflexivity, Distinction and Social Connectedness Chapter eight: Globalisation, Nation and the Region, The New Wine Drinking Culture
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