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Author Garfield, Seth, 1967- author.

Title Guaraná : how Brazil embraced the world's most caffeine-rich plant / Seth Garfield
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents An eye on the past and the present -- The roots of history and myth -- Colonial missions: remaking plants and people -- Silva Coutinho's plant: nineteenth-century science and Amazonian geopolitics -- Drug prospects: guaraná's Anglo-American boom and bust -- From Guarani to guaraná: forging a national industry -- Message in a bottle: selling guaraná -- Growing the pie: transformations in Brazilian agriculture and diet -- Fast times, slow food: indigenizing modernity -- A Brazilian original
Summary "Guaraná's journey elucidates human impacts on Amazonian ecosystems; the circulation of knowledge, goods, and power; and the promise of modernity in Latin America's largest nation. For Garfield, the beverage's cross-cultural history reveals not only the structuring of inequalities in Brazil but also the mythmaking and ordering of social practices that constitute so-called traditional and modern societies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Seth Garfield is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin
Print version record
Subject Guarana -- Brazil -- History
Guarana -- Social aspects -- Brazil
Guarana -- Economic aspects -- Brazil
Maue Indians -- Ethnobotany
Soft drink industry -- Brazil -- History
Caffeine -- Social aspects -- Brazil
Guarana.
Soft drink industry.
Brazil.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469671291
1469671298
9781469671284
146967128X