Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate
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Author_Susan J. Terrio
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chocolat
chocolate
chocolatiers
competition
consumption
contemporary france
cooking
craft chocolate
craft culture
craft food
craft work
culinary
cultural studies
dessert
desserts
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food
food studies
france
french chocolatiers
french ethnography
history
late stage capitalism
marxist theory
national identity
nonfiction
paris
parisian craft
post marxist theory
social theory
taste
taste makers
Product details
- ISBN 9780520221260
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This absorbing narrative follows the craft community of French chocolatiers--members of a tiny group experiencing intensive international competition--as they struggle to ensure the survival of their businesses. Susan J. Terrio moves easily among ethnography, history, theory, and vignette, telling a story that challenges conventional views of craft work, associational forms, and training models in late capitalism. She enters the world of Parisian craft leaders and local artisanal families there and in southwest France to relate how they work and how they confront the representatives and structures of power, from taste makers, CEOs, and advertising executives to the technocrats of Paris and Brussels. Looking at craft culture and community from a cross-disciplinary perspective, Terrio finds that the chocolatiers affirm their collective identity and their place in the present by commemorating selectively their role in history.
In addition to joining a distinguished tradition of American anthropological writing on the role of food, her study of the social production of taste in the invention of vintage, grand cru chocolates lends specificity and weight to theories of consumption by Pierre Bourdieu and others. The book will appeal to anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and anyone curious about life in contemporary France.
Susan J. Terrio is Associate Professor of French and Anthropology at Georgetown University.
