From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea

In this vivid ethnography, Paige West tracks coffee as it moves from producers in Papua New Guinea to consumers around the world. She illuminates the social lives of the people who produce coffee, and those who process, distribute, market, and consume it. The Gimi peoples, who grow coffee in Papua N...

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Beteilige Person: West, Paige (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [2012]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822394846
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Zusammenfassung:In this vivid ethnography, Paige West tracks coffee as it moves from producers in Papua New Guinea to consumers around the world. She illuminates the social lives of the people who produce coffee, and those who process, distribute, market, and consume it. The Gimi peoples, who grow coffee in Papua New Guinea's highlands, are eager to expand their business and social relationships with the buyers who come to their highland villages, as well as with the people working in Goroka, where much of Papua New Guinea's coffee is processed; at the port of Lae, where it is exported; and in Hamburg, Sydney, and London, where it is distributed and consumed. This rich social world is disrupted by neoliberal development strategies, which impose prescriptive regimes of governmentality that are often at odds with Melanesian ways of being in, and relating to, the world. The Gimi are misrepresented in the specialty coffee market, which relies on images of primitivity and poverty to sell coffee. By implying that the "backwardness" of Papua New Guineans impedes economic development, these images obscure the structural relations and global political economy that actually cause poverty in Papua New Guinea
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
Umfang:1 online resource (336 pages) 35 photographs, 7 tables
ISBN:9780822394846
DOI:10.1515/9780822394846