Beads, Bodies, and Trash Public Sex, Global Labor, and the Disposability of Mardi Gras

Name: Beads, Bodies, and Trash Public Sex, Global Labor, and the Disposability of Mardi Gras
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ISBN: 9780415525404

ISBN-10: 0415525403

ISBN-13: 9780415525404

Edition: 2015

Authors: David Redmon

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Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash teaches students to think critically about and question everyday objects that circulate around the globe: where do objects come from, how do they emerge, where do they end up, what are their properties, what assemblages do they form, and what are the consequences (both beneficial and harmful) of those properties on the environment and human bodies? This book also asks students to confront how the beads…

Book details

Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/14/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English