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"The book brings to life the Mayan farmers who hope for a little bit more for their families and their connection to the health-conscious, well-intentioned U.S. consumers trying to keep their bodies going on aprecarious budget. Similar to other works that follow a humble thing like bananas, sugar, or salt, the authors use the seemingly simple vegetable broccoli to reveal inter-American networks of production, consumption,desire, dreams for the future, and the terrifying awareness that all our individual efforts may be for naught." -- Diane Nelson * Duke University * "The authors bring insight and experience to their analysis, ultimately showing that any understanding of the historical and cultural context of export agriculture must indeed dig both wide and deep." -- Cultural Geographies "For once, here is a well-researched book with an arresting title that actually delivers what it promises: fresh, new, outside-the-box thinking on a region that has been well studied. In Broccoli and Desire, Fischer and Benson use the deceptively simple question, how the Maya want, as a tool to break down globalization and other political-economy issues. In seeking to show why growing broccoli for export is both dangerous and compelling for Maya farmers, the authors have given us a compelling product-a ground-breaking study that is engagingly written and innovative in its conception." -- Matthew Restall * Pennsylvania State University * "Readers of Broccoli and Desire will find a fresh take on why the Maya of Tecpn, like the so-called 'awkward class' of peasants throughout the glove, partake inthe 'irrational' behavior that is small agriculture." -- Journal of Latin American Geography "Broccoli and Desire is written in an honest, engaged, and straightforward manner by good ethnographers; Fischer and Benson are constantly pointing out the contrasts and contradictions in content and tone of informant's testimonies." -- Anthropos "Broccoli and Desire tells the story of globalization from the ground up, focusing on the lives of ordinary people-the producers and consumers of a vegetable that many often take for granted. The authors, perceptive, boots-on-the-ground ethnographers, look beyond the usual neoliberal models to show how the local is transformed by global economic forces. Fischer and Benson have produced an excellent text that will be used for a wide range of courses." -- James L. Watson * Harvard University, Editor of Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 1997) *
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In a surprising look at the hidden world of broccoli, this richly drawn ethnography traces the global commodity chain between U.S. consumer and Maya farmer, examining the connections between desire and material production.
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- VerlagStanford University Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2006
- ISBN 10 0804754845
- ISBN 13 9780804754842
- EinbandTapa blanda
- SpracheEnglisch
- Auflage1
- Anzahl der Seiten226
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