Meanings of Maple An Ethnography of Sugaring

Michael Lange, "Meanings of Maple: An Ethnography of Sugaring "
English | ISBN: 1682260372 | 2017 | 236 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In Meanings of Maple, Michael A. Lange provides a cultural analysis of maple syrup making, known in Vermont as sugaring, to illustrate how maple syrup as both process and product is an aspect of cultural identity.

Readers will go deep into a Vermont sugar bush and its web of plastic tubes, mainline valves, and collection tanks. They will visit sugarhouses crammed with gas evaporators and reverse-osmosis machines. And they will witness encounters between sugar makers and the tourists eager to invest Vermont with mythological fantasies of rural simplicity.
So much more than a commodity study,
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