Race and Process: Certifying Iberian Pigs and Invisibilising Humans
Abstract This article is based on on-going fieldwork in Extremadura, Spain and printed material produced by the producers’ association: a producer’s handbook, a guide to the genealogical registry, a trade journal, and current legislation. In a context of global market oriented commodity...
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| Language: | Norwegian Bokmål |
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Scandinavian University Press
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift |
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| Online Access: | https://www.idunn.no/nat/2019/03-04/race_and_process_certifying_iberian_pigs_and_invisibilisin |
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This article is based on on-going fieldwork in Extremadura, Spain
and printed material produced by the producers’ association: a producer’s
handbook, a guide to the genealogical registry, a trade journal,
and current legislation. In a context of global market oriented
commodity production, the Iberian Pig undergoes several processes
of classification and certification, governmental as well as from
the private sector, that aim to assure certain racial and processual characteristics
of the finished products. In this article I analyse the mythical-historical,
scientific, and legislative construction of the Iberian Pig breed.
I ask, in the ever-widening distance between farm and fork, not
only what the processes of certification bridge, but also what fails
to make it through, as well as what these processes contribute towards
concealing. I argue that, in an attempt at constructing it as natural,
the process of certification renders invisible the agency of modern
human intervention in the making of the Iberian Pig. |
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| ISSN: | 0802-7285 1504-2898 |