The Heritage Arena

Reinventing Cheese in the Italian Alps

Cristina Grasseni (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

202 Seiten

2016
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-294-4 (ISBN)

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The Heritage Arena describes the ways in which cheese has been reinvented as a form of cultural heritage through the negotiation and competition of many actors, including cheese-makers, merchants, and Slow Food activists.

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.

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

List of Tables, Figures and Maps

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Why cheese?

Calibrating cheese

Post transhumant timescapes

PART I: THE WAR OF THE CHEESES

Chapter 1. Patrimonio and Tipicità

The Entrepreneur as Sovereign

The Language of Tipicità

Chapter 2. Cultures of Resistance

The ‘Mother of all Battles’: Slow Food Bitto versus PDO Bitto

The Niche PDO: Formai de Mut

The Unachieved PDO: Branzi

Conclusion of Part I

PART II: WE, THE PEOPLE OF VAL TELEGGIO

Chapter 3. A geography of Opposites

Straddling uplands and lowlands

How Taleggio cheese failed the Taleggio valley

Chapter 4. The Best Cheese in Italy

PDO Italian Style?

The public trial of Strachitunt

Conclusion of Part II

PART III: DULCAMARA'S SENSES

Chapter 5. Marketing the Sensorium

Slow Food and the Geometry of Val Taleggio

Taliban and Improvers

Chapter 6. Reinventing Stracchino

Deciphering a Meal

Performing Cheese

Conclusion of Part III

Conclusion

References

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Food, Nutrition, and Culture
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-78533-294-5 / 1785332945
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-294-4 / 9781785332944
Zustand	Neuware