Greek Whisky : : The Localization of a Global Commodity / / Tryfon Bampilis.
In many contexts of Greek social life, Scotch whisky has coincidentally become a symbol of “Greekness,” national identity, modernity, and the middle class. This ethnographic study follows the social life of Scotch in Greece through three distinct trajectories in time and space in order to investigat...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Food, Nutrition, and Culture ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Note on Transliteration
- Preface
- Introduction. The Social Life of Whisky
- Chapter 1. The Imported Spirits Industry in Greece
- Chapter 2. Dreams of Modernity: Imagining the Consumption of Whisky during the Golden Age of Greek Cinema
- Chapter 3. “Keep Walking”: Whisky Marketing and the Imaginaries of Scale Making in Advertising
- Chapter 4. The Social Life of Whisky in Athens: Popular Style, Night Entertainment, and Bouzoukia with Live Greek Popular Music
- Chapter 5. The Location of Whisky in the North Aegean
- Conclusion. Trajectories of Scotch Whisky, Realms of Localization
- References
- Index