[PDF.98qs] Broccoli and Desire: Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala

Broccoli and Desire: Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala

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 | #1217010 in Books |  Stanford University Press |  2006-06-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.68 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Helpful Read|By William Hudson Baird|One of the best books I've read to understand the complexity and overlapping interactions in Guatemalan industry. Professor Fischer uses the Broccoli trade as a fascinating case study to shed light on larger trends in American consumption and other export products within Guatemala.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| |"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

This book takes a surprising look at the hidden world of broccoli, connecting American consumers concerned about their health and diet with Maya farmers concerned about holding onto their land and making a living. Compelling life stories and rich descriptions from ethnographic fieldwork among supermarket shoppers in Nashville, Tennessee and Maya farmers in highland Guatemala bring the commodity chain of this seemingly mundane product to life. For affluent Americans, b...

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