03640nam 2200745Ia 450 991095339610332120251116203735.01-134-51677-00-415-25759-X1-280-07142-71-134-51678-90-203-41794-110.4324/9780203417942 (CKB)1000000000412095(SSID)ssj0000375843(PQKBManifestationID)11289102(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000375843(PQKBWorkID)10327695(PQKB)10006965(SSID)ssj0000292581(PQKBManifestationID)11235683(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292581(PQKBWorkID)10270214(PQKB)10250841(MiAaPQ)EBC181601(Au-PeEL)EBL181601(CaPaEBR)ebr10100981(CaONFJC)MIL7142(OCoLC)437084438(OCoLC)53886382(EXLCZ)99100000000041209520020911d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrConsuming the Caribbean from Arawaks to zombies /Mimi Sheller1st ed.New York, NY Routledge2003ix, 252 p. illInternational library of sociologyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-203-42012-8 0-415-25760-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 fascinating book, 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 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. It calls into question innocent indulgence in the pleasures of thoughtless consumption and calls for a global ethics of consumer responsibility.International library of sociology.Consumption (Economics)Moral and ethical aspectsExploitationExportsCaribbean AreaCaribbean AreaCommerceMoral and ethical aspectsConsumption (Economics)Moral and ethical aspects.Exploitation.Exports339.4/7/09729Sheller Mimi863381MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953396103321Consuming the Caribbean4493087UNINA