Tasting the Good Life: Wine Tourism in the Napa Valley

by Sharon Bohn Gmelch and George Gmelch

Book Overview

While anthropologists often have been accused of failing to "study up," this book turns an anthropological lens on an elite activity - wine tasting. Five million people a year, from the US and abroad, travel to California's Napa Valley to experience the "good life" to taste fine wines, eat fine food, and immerse themselves in other sophisticated pleasures while surrounded by bucolic beauty.

Written in a highly readable style by anthropologists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025322327X
• ISBN13: 9780253223272
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"