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Guaraná : how Brazil embraced the world's most caffeine-rich plant /

"Guaraná's journey elucidates human impacts on Amazonian ecosystems; the circulation of knowledge, goods, and power; and the promise of modernity in Latin America's largest nation. For Garfield, the beverage's cross-cultural history reveals not only the structuring of inequaliti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garfield, Seth, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Guaraná's journey elucidates human impacts on Amazonian ecosystems; the circulation of knowledge, goods, and power; and the promise of modernity in Latin America's largest nation. For Garfield, the beverage's cross-cultural history reveals not only the structuring of inequalities in Brazil but also the mythmaking and ordering of social practices that constitute so-called traditional and modern societies"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469671291
1469671298
9781469671284
146967128X