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  Sensorial place-making in ethnic minority areas: The consumption of forest puer tea in contemporary China

Ma, Z. (2018). Sensorial place-making in ethnic minority areas: The consumption of forest puer tea in contemporary China. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 19(4), 316-332. doi:10.1080/14442213.2018.1486453.

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1Religious Diversity, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Society, ou_1116554              

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Free keywords: Puer tea, Senses, Terroir, Locality, Ethnic Minorities
 Abstract: This article examines sensorial place-making through analysing the taste and other sensory experiences of forest Puer tea in its consumption among the urban middle class in mainland China. In the process of creating the ‘terroir’ of forest Puer tea, sensorial experience has been frequently linked to its place of origin. I argue that ethnic minorities who cultivate the tea play a vital part in the imagination of the tea's terroir. Trips by consumers to the mountains where the tea is cultivated, which aim at facilitating a ‘full experience’ of the tea and its culture, have generated a special pattern of interactions between the urban middle class who consume the tea and the ethnic minorities who cultivate it. The consumption of Puer tea, which brings about social imaginary and transcendent economic value, has become a driving force for producing the locality of ethnic minority areas.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2018-06-262018
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2018.1486453
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Title: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
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