Meanings of Maple: An Ethnography of Sugaring

by Michael Lange

In Meanings of Maple, Michael A. Lange provides a cultural analysis of maple syrup making, known in Vermont as sugaring, to illustrate how maple syrup as both process and product is an aspect of cultural identity.

Readers will go deep into a Vermont sugar bush and its web of plastic tubes, mainline valves, and collection tanks. They will visit sugarhouses crammed with gas evaporators and reverse-osmosis machines. And they will witness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682260372
• ISBN13: 9781682260371
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"