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 |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Guarana -- Brazil -- History
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Guarana -- Social aspects -- Brazil
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Guarana -- Economic aspects -- Brazil
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Maue Indians -- Ethnobotany
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Soft drink industry -- Brazil -- History
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Caffeine -- Social aspects -- Brazil
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Guarana.
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Soft drink industry.
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Brazil.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781469671291 |
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1469671298 |
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9781469671284 |
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146967128X |
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