Consuming the Caribbean : From Arawaks to Zombies

ISBN-13: 9780415257596 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 256 str.

Mimi Sheller;Sheller Mimi

Opis

From sugar to indentured labourers, 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 volume, Mimi Sheller explores this troublesome history, investigating the complex mobilities of producers and consumers, of material and cultural commodities including: foodstuffs and stimulants - sugar, fruit, coffee and rum; human bodies - slaves, indentured labourers and service workers; cultural and knowledge products - texts, music, scientific collections and ethnology; and entire natures and landscapes consumed by tourists as tropical paradise. 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.

Spis treści

Part 1: Natural and Material Mobilities   Part 2: Bodies, Cultures and Creolization

O autorze

Mimi Sheller