Naslov
Culturing cultures? Reanimating human-microbe relations in cheese-making in Croatia.

Autori
Czerny, Sarah Caroline

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Royal Anthropological Institute: Anthropology and Conservation

Mjesto i datum
London, Velika Britanija (ONLINE), 25.10.2021. - 29.10.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Microbes, food production, European Union

Sažetak
Concerning human-microbe relations in food production, European Union legislation predominately places its focus on keeping those microbes that are harmful to human health under control. As such, this legislation takes a Pasteurian approach whereby human-microbe partnerships such as the ones Paxson (2008, 2013) has described in her writing about post-Pasteurian cheese makers are absent. Based on fieldwork on human-microbe relations in dairy production in Croatia and building on work by scholars working in similar ‘post-socialist’ contexts (Dunn 2003, Jung 2014, Mincyte 2014), I describe how this approach taken in EU legislation serves to homogenise human-microbe relations: to work legally, farmers must follow these regulations and employ the food hygiene technologies they proscribe. One effect of this is that it has the potential to contribute to the homogenisation of the local microbiome, since cheeses that are made using “traditional” techniques are no longer legal. These starter cultures are not being nurtured by farmers in the same way as they were before, where there is less and less interest in making cheeses using these now "illegal" methods. In this paper, and in response to this, I consider from a number of different angles how human- microbe relations in cheese-making in this particular social context could be reanimated.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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