Catherine M. Tucker

Coffee Culture (eBook, PDF)

Local Experiences, Global Connections

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Coffee Culture: Local experiences, Global Connections explores coffee as (1) a major commodity that shapes the lives of millions of people; (2) a product with a dramatic history; (3) a beverage with multiple meanings and uses (energizer, comfort food, addiction, flavouring, and confection); (4) an inspiration for humor and cultural critique; (5) a crop that can help protect biodiversity yet also threaten the environment; (6) a health risk and a health food; and (7) a focus of alternative trade efforts. This book presents coffee as a commodity that ties the world together, 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 how the drink reached their hands.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317392255
• Artikelnr.: 47513632

Autorenporträt

Catherine M. Tucker is a sociocultural and ecological anthropologist at the University of Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Coffee Culture, Social Life and Global History 1. Culture,
Caffeine, and Coffee Shops 2. Theories of Food and Social Meanings of
Coffee 3. Coffee Culture, History, and Media in Coca-Cola Land 4. Tracing
Coffee Connections 5. Coffee and the Rise of the World System 6. Coffee,
the Industrial Revolution, and Body Discipline Part Two: Accolades and
Antipathies: Coffee Controversies through Time 7. Coffee Controversies and
Threats to Social Order 8. National Identities and Cultural Relevance 9.
Hot and Bothered: Coffee and Caffeine Humor 10. Is Coffee Good or Bad for
You? Debates over Physical and Mental Health Effects Part Three: Coffee
Production and Processing 11. Planting and Caring for Coffee 12.
Harvesting, Processing, and Inequality 13. Environmental Sustainability of
Coffee Production 14. Environmental Conundrums of Coffee Processing Part
Four: Markets and the Modern World System 15. Market Volatility and Social
Calamity 16. Efforts to Mitigate the Coffee Cycle and the Distribution of
Power 17. A Brief History of Fair Trade 18. Conundrums of Fair Trade
Coffee: Building Equity or Reinventing Subjugation?