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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Garfield, Seth, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Guarana > Brazil > History.
Guarana > Social aspects > Brazil.
Guarana > Economic aspects > Brazil.
Maue Indians > Ethnobotany.
Soft drink industry > Brazil > History.
Caffeine > Social aspects > Brazil.
Guarana.
Soft drink industry.
Brazil.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An eye on the past and the present
  • The roots of history and myth
  • Colonial missions: remaking plants and people
  • Silva Coutinho's plant: nineteenth-century science and Amazonian geopolitics
  • Drug prospects: guaraná's Anglo-American boom and bust
  • From Guarani to guaraná: forging a national industry
  • Message in a bottle: selling guaraná
  • Growing the pie: transformations in Brazilian agriculture and diet
  • Fast times, slow food: indigenizing modernity
  • A Brazilian original.

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