A hospitalidade em Paris e Buenos Aires: seguindo consumidores de vinho para além do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This article presents the contribution of the international fieldwork experience for my doctoral ethnographic thesis on the wine consumption process by the middle and upper classes of Rio de Janeiro. The characteristics of this consumption and my previous involvement with the object of study as well as the consequence of following wine and its consumers according to representations that went beyond national borders made me consider the strategy of doing part of my research abroad. The anthropology department responsible for my doctorate course gave me the opportunity to undergo immersion in Paris for nine months and perform an exploratory research in Buenos Aires for three months, totalling one year abroad. Such experiences were essential for the interpretation of the ethnographic data, mainly because, once I experienced hospitality as a foreigner myself in these countries, I was able to understand how the theory of hospitality was key to understand my fieldwork data in Rio de Janeiro. That is, consumers of wine from Rio de Janeiro, when perceiving wine as something “foreign”, create hospitality relations with specialists who work in the wine trade, being inserted in the social circle of what they call “wine culture”.

Keywords

• consumption
• wine
• hospitality
• paris
• buenos aires