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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451528203321

Autore

Sheller Mimi

Titolo

Consuming the Caribbean : from Arawaks to zombies / / Mimi Sheller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

0-415-25759-X

1-280-07142-7

1-134-51678-9

0-203-41794-1

Descrizione fisica

ix, 252 p. : ill

Collana

International library of sociology

Disciplina

339.4/7/09729

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Moral and ethical aspects

Exploitation

Exports - Caribbean Area

Electronic books.

Caribbean Area Commerce Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter Introduction -- part Part I Natural and material mobilities -- chapter 1 The binding mobilities of consumption -- chapter 2 Iconic islands -- Nature, landscape, and the tropical tourist gaze -- chapter 3 Tasting the Tropics -- From sweet tooth to banana wars -- part Part II Bodies and cultural hybridities -- chapter 4 Orienting the Caribbean -- When East is West -- chapter 5 Eating others -- Of cannibals, vampires, and zombies -- chapter 6 Creolization in global culture.