Coffee Culture Local Experiences, Global Connections

Name: Coffee Culture Local Experiences, Global Connections
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ISBN: 9780415800259

ISBN-10: 0415800250

ISBN-13: 9780415800259

Edition: 2011

Authors: Catherine M. Tucker

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"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each "Stuff" title is a short (100 page) "mini text" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their material world.From the coffee producers and pickers who tend the plantations in tropical nations, to the middlemen and processors, to the consumers who drink coffee without ever having to think about…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 1/19/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.25" wide x 9.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.682



List of Illustrations


Series Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


Acronyms and Abbreviations



Coffee Culture, Social Life, and Global History



Culture, Caffeine, and Coffee Shops



Theories of Food and Social Meanings of Coffee



Coffee Culture, History, and Media in Coca-Cola Land



Tracing Coffee Connections



offee and the Rise of the World System



Coffee, the Industrial Revolution, and Body Discipline



Accolades and Antipathies: Coffee Controversies through Time



Coffee Controversies and Threats to Social Order



National Identities and Cultural Relevance



Hot and Bothered: Coffee and Caffeine HumorElise Decamp With Catherine M. Tucker



Is Coffee Good or Bad for You? Debates over Physical and Menta Health Effects



Coffee Production and Processing



Planting and Caring for Coffee



Harvesting, Processing, and Inequality



Environmental Sustainability of Coffee Production



Environmental Conundrums of Coffee Processing



Markets and the Modern World System



Market Volatility and Social Calamity



Efforts to Mitigate the Coffee Cycle and the Distribution of Power



A Brief History of Fair Trade



Conundrums of Fair Trade Coffee: Building Equity or Reinventing Subjugation?


Appendix: A Coffee Culture Timeline


References


Index