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From modern production to imagined primitive : the social world of coffee from Papua New Guinea / Paige West

By: West, PaigeContributor(s): West, PaigeMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012Description: xvii, 315 pages 24cmISBN: 9780822351504Subject(s): Economics | Production | Coffee industry -- Papua New Guinea | Coffee -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture | Coffee industry | Papua New Guinea | Coffee -- Social aspects | Sociale aspecten | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural | Papua Nieuw-GuineaDDC classification: 338.1737 WES

Contents:

The world of coffee from Papua New Guinea -- Neoliberal coffee -- Historic coffee -- Village coffee -- Relational coffee -- National coffee -- International coffee.

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.

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The world of coffee from Papua New Guinea --
Neoliberal coffee --
Historic coffee --
Village coffee --
Relational coffee --
National coffee --
International coffee.

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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