Tasting Qualities

Tasting Qualities
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Publisher : University of California Press
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9780520303249
ISBN-13 : 0520303245
Rating : 4/5 (245 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Tasting Qualities by : Sarah Besky

Download or read book Tasting Qualities written by Sarah Besky and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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