TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leclercq,Maya
TI  - The rooibos Path (Red Tea) in South Africa
PY  - 2011///.
							
N1  - 21
N2  - Local products are linked to specific places, resources and know-how. Local products evolve in a dynamic context; being at the same time locally embedded in a specific territory and having to fit global market expectations. In this article, we focus on the phenomenon of appropriation of the knowledge and know-how regarding a South African local product: the herbal tea rooibos (red tea). The rooibos production is linked to different kind of knowledge: it involves the engineering of the Afrikaner producers and the know-how of the Coloured workers, which contributes to make it a local and national cultural heritage. The resource and the associated knowledge have become, beyond the economical stakes, a political stake
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-anthropologie-des-connaissances-2011-3-page-533?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -