Semiotics of Drink and Drinking

Name: Semiotics of Drink and Drinking
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Paul Manning

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Description

Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions. It looks at the way the materiality of a specific drink (coffee, wine, water, beer) serves as the semiotic medium for a genre of sociability in a specific time and place. As an explicitly comparative semiotic study, the book uses familiar and unfamiliar case studies to show how drinks with similar material properties are semiotically organized into very different drinking practices, including ethnographic examples as diverse as the relation of coffee to talk (in ordering at Starbucks). Further chapters look at the dryness of gin in relation to the modern cocktail party and the embedding of beer brands in the ethnographic imagination of the nation. Rather than treat drinks as mere props in the exclusively human drama of the social, the book promotes them to actors on the stage.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

256

Release Date:

2012-05-17

Publication Date:

2012-05-17

Publisher:

Bloomsbury 3PL

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1441137742

ISBN13:

9781441137746

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

395 g

Height:

156 cm

Width:

234 cm

Thickness:

14 cm

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