| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 169 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology |
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Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology.
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| Contents |
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 -- Coffee and the rise of the world system -- Coffee, the Industrial Revolution, and body discipline -- Coffee controversies and threats to social order -- National identities and cultural relevance -- Coffee waste, consumer choices, and activism on college campuses -- Is coffee good or bad for you?: debates over physical and mental health effects -- Planting and caring for coffee -- Harvesting, processing, and inequality -- Environmental sustainability of coffee production -- Environmental conundrums of coffee processing -- 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? -- Riding the next wave of coffee: possibilities for transformation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Coffee industry -- Social aspects.
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Coffee -- Health aspects.
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Coffee -- History.
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Coffee -- Social aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317392248 (electronic bk.) |
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9781317392248 (electronic bk.) |
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(hardcover ;) (alk. paper) |
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(paperback ;) (alk. paper) |
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(hardcover ;) (alk. paper) |
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(paperback ;) (alk. paper) |
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