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Guilty Pleasures?: Global Commodities in Social Context

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Fair Bananas! Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive to Change an Industry. By FrundtHenry J.Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. Pp. xvii + 273. $65.00 cloth, $26.95 paper.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Deborah Sick
Deborah Sick*
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University of Ottawa
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , 2011 , pp. 272 - 279
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References

1. George Marcus, “Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography,” Annual Review of Anthropology 24 (1995): 102.

2. See, for example, Stephen Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006); Gabriel Torres, The Force of Irony: Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers (New York: Berg, 1997); Catherine Ziegler, Favored Flowers: Culture and Economy in a Global System (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).

3. Although Norton dismisses the thesis that chocolate and tobacco were originally seen primarily as medicinal goods, only later to be transformed into recreational and social consumer goods, her in-depth discussion of early debates among physicians and scholars as to the properties and uses of these substances suggests that there remains some merit to that argument.