Liberman Tasting Coffee

An Inquiry into Objectivity
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8898-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 510 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liberman, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Story of Coffee Purveying

1. A Brief History of Coffee

2. Coffee's Chain of Production

Part II: Objectivity and Its Labors

3. Historical and Epistemological Bases of Objectivity

4. Making Contact with the Object

5. The Dynamic Nature of Coffee

Part III: Tasting and Its Labors

6. Common Practices of Tasting

7. Down on the Fincas and with the Exporters: Harvesting, Processing, Blending

8. A Palette for the Palate: Using Taste Descriptors to Find Flavor

9. Professional Tasting

10. Tasting for Excellence

11. Importers, Roasters, Myths, and Marketers

12. Some Discovered Practices of Lay Coffee Drinkers
(with Giolo Fele)

Part IV: Science and Its Labors

13. Science and Objective Practices

14. A Scientific Critique of Scientific Practices

Appendix: Sample Tasting Schedules

Bibliography
Authors Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Liberman is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Oregon. His many books include More Studies in Ethnomethodology, also published by SUNY Press.