Coffee Culture

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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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? 

Autoreninfo

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