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In the Cuyo region, of Argentina, the wine into an iconic product with respect to culture, production mode and life in rural environments. Nevertheless, the 20th-century legal provisions established a production mode and technological and infrastructural requirements that excluded a great number of social actors. The regulatory framework operated viewing only the industrial winery as a production space. It was only at the beginning of the 21st century that, the State, through the National Institute of Vitiviniculture (INV), issued a resolution acknowledging the winemaking existence and regulating the activity; first on homemade winemaking, and secondly, on the artisanal wines. Its aim was to guarantee the final product’s innocuousness. This paper analyses the productive, socioeconomic, and commercial characteristics of artisanal winemakers in the province of San Juan. The analysis of the documents is qualitative. The data, which was collected from a survey carried out to 63% of the winemakers, is processed using a quantitative work method.

From 1523 to 1532, the plague ravaged the islands of Tenerife and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, in a tragic decimation of the population, already afflicted by wideíread hunger and misery caused by Spanish and Portuguese colonization. This essay discusses how the Catholic Church reacted to the plague by blaming minorities. The Spanish Inquisition, to defeat the plague and ward off what is perceived as the wrath of God, held two ceremonies of propitiatory auto da fé. This article uses Inquisitorial sources to construct a kaleidoscopic view of peoples and inserts new micro-stories into the global context of early modern history.

Las bodegas materializadas con quincha se consideran patrimonio cultural por condensar características propias de la zona donde se localizan y por dar cuenta de una relación singular entre naturaleza y cultura. Sin embargo, desde el año 2000 en Mendoza se intensifican los avances de la expansión urbana sobre territorios rurales que impactan en el patrimonio vitivinícola y promueven la demolición de bodegas, particularmente de pequeños productores. Si bien en las últimas décadas han tomado protagonismo acciones de ordenamiento territorial para regular el crecimiento urbano y proteger las zonas agrícolas, se advierte que no alcanzan a poner en valor el patrimonio vitivinícola para su conservación y valorización como elemento de identidad. El trabajo analiza las características y condición de patrimonio de las bodegas en quincha localizadas en el oasis norte de Mendoza y el impacto del avance urbano sobre estas construcciones. Para ello utilizamos herramientas de metodología cualitativa y seleccionamos como caso de estudio el Cinturón Verde de Mendoza. Los resultados apuntan a reflexionar sobre los impactos de la expansión urbana sobre el patrimonio vitivinícola para generar recomendaciones a la política pública tendiente al reconocimiento de los valores patrimoniales y su aplicación en acciones de desarrollo local.

The Estación Experimental Vitivinícola de Cauquenes (EE) has its origins in the Viticulture School of that city. Founded in 1895, it sought to train specialized technicians in viticulture. Thirty years later it became an Experimental Station, devoting part of its work to production and another to providing technical assistance to local producers. In subsequent decades, the guidelines dictated by the Ministry of Agriculture were followed: research in viticulture, provision of oenological services and wine production. Transferred to INIA in 1964, the EE strengthened the work in research, developing studies on technical irrigation, nutrition, planting density, foliage management, enhancement of traditional dryland varieties and products. Despite the varied and permanent work developed from these facilities, the dissemination has not been compiled and transmitted all over. Therefore, this work seeks to relieve and disseminate the contributions made by the Experimental Station Cauquenes to the chilean viticulture, emphasizing those older antecedents and therefore less known. For this, information was collected from publications, old documents and the memory of those who have been part of this history.

Un factor relevante al momento de elegir un vino es que la etiqueta sea lo más precisa y completa posible para formar una idea de las características que ofrece el producto. De ahí la importancia de elaborar etiquetas que destaquen e influyan en la decisión de compra del consumidor. Otro elemento que ayuda a los productores a distinguir sus productos de la competencia es la obtención de medallas mediante concursos internacionales, ya que con ello se destaca y atrae la atención del consumidor. Por ello, en este artículo analizamos las etiquetas de los vinos ganadores del concurso internacional de vinos Ensenada, Tierra del Vino, de 2009, realizado en Baja California (México), de tal manera que permita emitir consideraciones relacionadas con los elementos que pueden influir en la decisión de compra del consumidor de vino mexicano, lo que conlleva al aumento del consumo de vino nacional. Como resultado se encontró que estas botellas cuentan con elementos tangibles e intangibles únicos, característicos y propios de la principal zona vitivinícola de México: la Ruta del Vino del Valle de Guadalupe.

Wine has a status of a global cultural object, whose worldwide dispersion has implied processes of territorial appropriation with various meanings. The approach of the New World of Wine has focused on technological and organizational variations that characterize emerging wine regions, ignoring their sociocultural analysis. Wine festivals are considered to be privileged spaces for analyzing the socio-economic dynamics in these emerging wine production scenarios. To develop a conceptual model, eleven wine festivals in seven wine-growing regions of Mexico were analyzed. This highlights the economic and cultural nature of wine festivals, whose implications are debated between the territorial creative potential and the asymmetric power relations. The popular expression of identities as opposed to the elitist staging locked in the cellars and directed at the middle-class tourist. Wine festivals in Mexico are ambivalent social phenomena where new territorial hegemonies are established, identities are built-in territories undergoing transformation and local resources are reinterpreted in a dialogue between the local and the global. 

La alimentación tiene un rol fundamental en la construcción de las identidades, tanto de los(as) sujetos como de los colectivos y comunidades. Es así que, en el presente artículo, pretendo dar una primera aproximación de cómo la mirada desde las socioantropologías de la alimentación permiten reflexionar sobre los procesos de patrimonialización y la construcción de las identidades chilenas. A modo de hipótesis, planteo que desde las nociones de la alimentación contemporánea y de su manifestación a través del patrimonio alimentario, es posible dar cuenta de aquello que se considera como propio para el caso de Chile. Esto permite dar luces de los(as) sujetos que son considerados(as) parte de las identidades chilenas. Para ello, se hizo una investigación a través de fuentes secundarias e investigaciones previas, para trazar una ruta que permita empezar a comprender los vínculos entre alimentación, patrimonio e identidades chilenas.

This study was carried out in Chanchamayo, a province belonging to the Junín Region, in the central jungle of Peru with the objective of analyze the knowledge of weeds from professionals involve in the coffee cultivation. For this purpose, and was made face-to-face to professionals in coffee crop. Professionals were from the various departments of the Ministry of Agriculture (55%), followed by professionals working in agrochemical companies (18%), independent professionals (18%) and members of Agricultural Coffee Cooperatives (9%). It was concluded that professionals know the importance of weeds in coffee cultivation, but their knowledge is very general, so they consider it is necessary to implement training programs on weed identification and control methods. The majority of them consider that exist conditions in the area for research on weeds in coffee cultivation and suggest doing so on topics such as their effect on yield and quality, their role as hosts for pests and diseases, and control methods.

A pesar de la enorme importancia que posee el nombre para una marca, el naming aparece como un campo de saber menor dentro del branding. Basta con observar las falencias que presentan las clasificaciones de nombres de marca que se encuentran en la escasa literatura sobre la materia. Al respecto, el presente artículo propone un modo de ordenamiento distinto de los nombres de marca, según el recorrido de lectura que puede suscitar derivado de las asociaciones semánticas. Se desprende de un análisis semiótico, sincrónico en producción, que toma como referencia las marcas argentinas de vino (380 nombres). El planteo, que se disfraza de taxonomía, pretende destacar aspectos teórico-metodológicos fundamentales, que no se priorizan en la bibliografía específica, la cual se desentiende de las dimensiones procesual e intersubjetiva de la marca. Por último se describen un par de nombres (marcas) que fueron lanzados recientemente por bodegas, que llaman la atención por alejarse de las variantes tradicionales en pos de seducir al consumidor “posmoderno”.

This paper aims to analyze the available cartography during the establishment of viticulture in the Elqui valley (second half of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century). Colonial cartography of the general captaincy of Chile is examined, in addition to a civil trial over a property that contains a map of the Elqui Valley from 1810. In this way, unpublished sources are presented that have been useful to understand and explain the development of viticulture in the Elqui Valley. This work demonstrates a characteristic agrarian landscape, which supplied the regional economy, made evident in the analyzed cartography, and also its identity elements and their relationships. The hypothesis affirms that viticulture in the Elqui Valley in this period was defined by a convergence of environmental and cultural factors. The results of this research shows the value of the use of colonial cartography in the study of the history and development of agriculture and regional economy.