Wine-producers in the Region of Malé Karpaty During First Half of 20th Century Cover Image

Malokarpatské vinohradníctvo v 1. polovici 20. storočia (Na príklade produkcie a predaja vína vo vybranom malokarpatskom mikroregióne)
Wine-producers in the Region of Malé Karpaty During First Half of 20th Century

Author(s): Katarína Nováková
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: wine-producing culture; the region of Malé Karpaty; rural forms of wine-producing; vine-yards; sale and consumption of wine

Summary/Abstract: The paper focusing on the culture of wine producing in the specific micro-region within the wine-producing region of Malé Karpaty. The author illuminates the attitudes the wine-producers had towards the wine-producing, which was their main source of subsistence, towards their vineyards approached as the property and possible source of income. The paper explains how the wine-producers' year looked like, describing their work in vineyards changing within the year. She introduces the terminology the wine-producers used , explains basic tasks they did and the tools nad technology they used in their work. She attempts to draw differences between urban and rural forms of the culture of wine-producing, consisting especially in different work technologies, grapes' processing and sale of wine. She concentrates on consumption of wine in the wine-producing households and importance of wine as a drink. She introduces new information that could be obtained only through deep insights qualitative analysis of the data from the smaller sample. Her work complements already published data on wine-producing in the region of Malé Karpaty. Focusing on the area rather neglected by previous researchers she provides the detailed analysis of the phenomenon.

  • Issue Year: 55/2007
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 265-291
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Slovak
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