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Everyday Moral Economies : Food, Politics and Scale in Cuba.

Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for 'appropriate' acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life. Discusses the confli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilson, Marisa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Offering a rare glimpse of rural life in modern-day Cuba, this book examines how ordinary Cubans carve out their own spaces for 'appropriate' acts of consumption, exchange, and production within the contradictory normative and material spaces of everyday economic life. Discusses the conflict between the socialist-welfare ideal of food as an entitlement and the market value of food as a commodityBridges the fields of human geography and anthropologyApproaches food networks and the scale of food systems in a novel wayProvides a comprehensive look at Cuba.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:1299907512
9781299907515
9781118302026
1118302028