Coffee culture :

Tucker, Catherine M.

Coffee culture : local experiences, global connections / Coffee culture. Local experiences, global connections. Catherine M. Tucker. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - xv, 160 p. : ill. ; - The Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology. .

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 -- Hot and bothered: coffee and caffeine humor -- 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?

9780415800259 (pbk.) : 9780415800242 (hbk.)


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394.12 / T891 2011