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Packaged Plants : Seductive Supplements and Metabolic Precarity in the Philippines.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hardon, Anita, author.
- Series:
- Embodying Inequalities: Perspectives from Medical Anthropology Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : UCL Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Packaged Plants offers an absorbing ethnography and cultural history to explain why food supplements have become so popular in the Philippines.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Packaged plants and the loss of plant sovereignty in the Philippines
- Long-term ethnographic engagements
- Erosion of plant sovereignty in the Philippines
- Devaluing indigenous plant knowledge
- United States colonization
- Sugar
- Better than nature
- Metabolic drawbacks
- Summary
- What follows
- Notes
- Part I: Socio-metabolic shifts and the loss of plant sovereignty
- 2 Post-colonial metabolic rifts
- Double burden
- Persistent stunting
- Noodlemania
- Urbanization
- Fighting hidden hunger
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- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781800087514
- 1800087519
- OCLC:
- 1463770395
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