Coffee culture
Subtitle: local experiences, global connections
By: Catherine M. Tucker
Series: Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780415800242; 9780415800259; 9780203831243
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture, caffeine, and coffee shops; title: Theories of food and social meanings of coffee; title: Coffee culture, history, and media in coca-cola land; title: Tracing coffee connections; title: Coffee and the rise of the world system; title: Coffee, the industrial revolution, and body discipline; title: Coffee controversies and threats to social order; title: National identities and cultural relevance; title: Hot and bothered: coffee and caffeine humor; title: Is coffee good or bad for you? Debates over physical and mental health effects; title: Planting and caring for coffee; title: Harvesting, processing, and inequality; title: Environmental sustainability of coffee production; title: Environmental conundrums of coffee processing; title: Market volatility and social calamity; title: Efforts to mitigate the coffee cycle and the distribution of power; title: A brief history of fair trade; title: Conundrums of fair trade coffee: building equity or reinventing subjugation?