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The discipline of anthropology has long grappled with the challenge of developing theoretical forms while simultaneously grounding these concepts in concrete phenomena. Is kinship, for example, an empirically observable domain of human life; one model of relationship-making; or an ideological claim, only present in specific times and places, about the value of shared “blood” or genetic inheritance? Are rituals the ceremonial practices by which humans punctuate a collective temporal order, the communicative dimension of all social activity, or merely the artifact of utilitarian models of cultural life (that is to say, what remains after all “practical” activity has been accounted for can only be a “ritual”)? The notion of terroir, glossed as “the taste of place,” presents a similar conundrum. Is terroir best understood as a very specific attribute of viticultural performance; a cultural category of perception (perhaps one developed to evaluate precisely said viticultural qualities); or a framework for articulating the material connection between histories, modes, and techniques of food production and the communities of consumers who appreciate these goods?
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2025
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Paxson, Heather and Weiss, Brad. "Afterword: Thinking, and Becoming, Beyond Terroir". Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective, edited by Anna Colquhoun and Katharina Graf, Berghahn Books, 2025, pp. 301-312. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781836951896-022
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