Carte Decency and Excess Samuel Martinez

Decency and Excess

Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation

Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverish...

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Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2006
Pagini
242
EAN
9781594511875
ISBN
159451187X
Enbook ID
04830276
Greutate
453
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 19

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Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverished plantation dwellers find ways of coping with the alienation that would be expected while laboring to produce goods for the richer countries. Despite living in dire poverty, these workers live in a thoroughly commodified social environment. Ritual, eroticism, electronic media, household adornment, payday-weekend "binging" are ways even chronically poor plantation residents dream beyond reality. Yet plantation residents' efforts to live decently and escape from the dead hand of necessity also deepen existing divisions of ethnic identity and status. As the divide between "haves" and "have-nots" worsens as a result of neoliberal reform and the decline of sugar in international markets, this book reveals on an intensely human scale the coarsening of the social fabric of this and other communities of the world's poorer nations.

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