Tasting Qualities : The Past and Future of Tea
by
Sarah Besky
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0520303253
ISBN-13
9780520303256
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 12th, 2020
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.70 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Food & societyAnthropologySocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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What is the role of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea judged for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and appraise mass-market black tea, one of the world’s most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea plantation workers, Besky shows how the meaning of quality has been subjected to nearly constant experimentation and debate throughout the history of the tea industry. Working across fields of political economy, science and technology studies, and sensory ethnography, Tasting Qualities argues for an approach to quality that sees it not as a final destination for economic, imperial, or post-imperial projects but as an opening for those projects.
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