Trans-mountain Moonshine: Liquor, Identity, and Resistance in the Appalachian and Carpathian Mountains
Trans-mountain Moonshine: Liquor, Identity, and Resistance in the Appalachian and Carpathian Mountains
Author(s): Emilie PeineSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Economic development, Philology
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: alcohol; informal economy; rural communities; cultural reproduction; state control;
Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the role of the local production of liquor – or hooch – as a means of cultural reproduction and participation in the informal economy within rural areas, and what this has implied for both state control and local resistance. I examine these issues comparatively, looking at the informal production of moonshine in Appalachia, and ţuica in Carpathian Romania. A global comparative lens helps to illuminate the changing nature of state-society relations in the context of rural peripheries and the increasing globalization of local culture and lifeways.
Journal: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series IV: Philology & Cultural Studies
- Issue Year: 15/2023
- Issue No: Suppl
- Page Range: 65-74
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
