La cerámica como “resistencia cultural" : la escuela de cerámica y sus artistas

Este trabajo representa el estudio sistemático del desarrollo cerámico en Mendoza a partir de 1970, con el objetivo de producir un escrito útil a la comunicad y abrir el intercambio cultural con Latinoamérica. La cerámica en Mendoza presenta similitudes con la europea, sin embargo, tienen características surgidas del contexto y de herencias culturales: a partir de 1970, comenzaron a transitar con las vanguardias, pero con rasgos particulares como forma de “resistencia cultural", asumiendo la heterogeneidad de nuestras sociedades Latinoamericanas. La metodología tuvo dos etapas: búsqueda de literatura teórica y entrevistas y los resultados obtenidos fueron excelentes ya que se efectuaron transferencias en congresos y cursos.

Cultural convergences in world wine consumption

This paper addresses the dynamics of world wine consumption over the past 50 years in 26 countries, verifying whether or not there is a macro-tendency towards a common consumption style, despite differences in taxation, economic policies and distribution systems among countries. From an empirical point of view, the σ and β convergence hypotheses were formally tested. Model results confirm the existence of both types of convergences. Per capita consumption of wine first experienced a reduction in differences between countries and then converged toward a central value. "Traditional" countries, with historically high levels of consumption, showed a decrease in wine consumption, while emerging countries with historically lower consumption levels showed an increase. These findings not only provide further support to the theory of international convergence of wine consumption on a volume basis, as already observed by other researchers in the European market, but they also offer support for the theory in major world markets. Furthermore, convergence appears to be happening not only at a quantitative level but at qualitative level as well, and this phenomenon may very well reflect the changing tastes of worldwide consumers towards a generalized structure of wine consumption.