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Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies
Mimi Sheller
ISBN 13: 9780415257602
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover
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From sugar to indentured laborers, tobacco to reggae music, Europe and North America have been relentlessly consuming the Caribbean and its assets for the past five hundred years. In this fascinating book, Mimi Sheller explores this troublesome history, investigating the complex mobilities of producers and consumers as well as material and cultural commodities consumed by tourists and outside settlers -- everything from sugar and coffee to slave labor and domestic servers to native music and natural resources.
Consuming the Caribbean demonstrates how colonial exploitation of the Caribbean led directly to contemporary forms of consumption of the region and its products, aiming to trouble innocent indulgence in the pleasures of thoughtless consumption. This book is sure to change anyone's opinion of this tropical paradise.
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Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 2003. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. (256 pages) From sugar to indentured abourers, tobacco to reggae music, Europe and North America have been reentessy consuming the Caribbean and its assets for the past five hundred years. In this fascinating book, Mimi Sheer expores this troubesome history, investigating the compex mobiities of producers and consumers, of materia and cutura commodities, incuding: foodstuffs and stimuants - sugar, fruit, coffee and rum human bodies - saves, indentured abourers and service workers cutura and knowedge products - texts, music, scientific coections and ethnoogy entire 'natures' and andscapes consumed by tourists as tropica paradise. Consuming the Caribbean demonstrates how coonia expoitation of the Caribbean ed directy to contemporary forms of consumption of the region and its products. It cas into question innocent indugence in the peasures of thoughtess consumption and cas for a goba ethics of consumer responsibiity. Part 1: Natura and Materia Mobiities Part 2: Bodies, Cutures and Creoization 'This is a stunning book It is beautifuy reasoned and we-documented and demonstrates Sheer's mastery of her materia, but it is much more. It is origina in its approach . and above a, it is eeganty and sensitivey written.' - Janet Abu Lughod, New Schoo of Socia Research, USA 'Beautifuy written, ceary argued and we exempified, Consuming the Caribbean iustrates the importance of historicay embedded and geographicay extensive narratives of interconnection in heping to foster more ethica goba reationships. My hope is that the book wi serve to encourage greater refexitiviy among both those who work on the Caribbean region and those who do not, but imagine that it must be 'fun' to do so. Consuming the Caribbean is a wonderfu book that deserves considerabe attention from geographers.' - Cutura Geographies 'Sheer tracks some of the transatantic pathways of peope, goods, images and ideas, and in so doing unearths a number of inks between - as it were - then and now' - British Buetin of Pubications (Paperback). Bookseller Inventory # AG0415257603 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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