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From modern production to imagined primitive : the social world of coffee from Papua New Guinea / Paige West.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- West, Paige, 1969-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coffee industry--Papua New Guinea.
- Coffee industry.
- Coffee--Social aspects--Papua New Guinea.
- Coffee.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The world of coffee from Papua New Guinea
- Neoliberal coffee
- Historic coffee
- Village coffee
- Relational coffee
- National coffee
- International coffee.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record
- ISBN:
- 9786613523679
- 9781280119637
- 1280119632
- 9780822394846
- 0822394847
- OCLC:
- 777263831
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