Mezcal in Oaxaca
192 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:11 Mar 2025
ISBN:9781477330968
Hardcover
Release Date:11 Mar 2025
ISBN:9781477330951
Mezcal in Oaxaca
A Craft Spirit for the Global Marketplace
University of Texas Press
An ethnography of mezcal and how it has become a global, "artisanal" good.
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: Mezcal Is Good to Think With
- 1. Mezcal and Coloniality
- 2. Mezcal in the New Craft Imaginary
- 3. A Taste for Agave
- 4. Mezcal, Mole, and Oaxaca Tourism
- 5. Valuing Women or Creating Value?
- 6. Can Mezcal Save a Village?
- Conclusion: Mezcal in a Twenty-First-Century Wonderland
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
