From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive

From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9780822351504
ISBN-13 : 0822351501
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Download or read book From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive written by Paige West and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in far away places. She shows how coffee becomes a commodity, the different forms of labor involved, and the way that coffee shapes the lives and understandings of those who grow, process, export, sell and consume coffee.


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