6 Ergebnisse.

Coffee Culture: Local experiences, Global Connections explores coffee as (1) a major commodity that shapes the lives of millions of people, (2) a product with a dramatic history, (3) a beverage with multiple meanings and uses (energizer, comfort food, addiction, flavouring, and confection), (4) an inspiration for humor and cultural critique, (5) a crop that can help protect biodiversity yet also threaten the environment, (6) a health risk and ...

The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each "Stuff" title is a short (100 page) "mini text" illuminating for students the ...

Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, "Changing Forests" explores how the indigenous Lenca community of La Campa, Honduras, has conserved and transformed their communal forests through the experiences of colonialism, opposition to state-controlled logging, and the recent adoption of export-oriented coffee production. It merges political ecology, collective-action theories, and institutional analysis to study how the people and forests...

Coffee Culture: Local experiences, Global Connections explores coffee as (1) a major commodity that shapes the lives of millions of people, (2) a product with a dramatic history, (3) a beverage with multiple meanings and uses (energizer, comfort food, addiction, flavouring, and confection), (4) an inspiration for humor and cultural critique, (5) a crop that can help protect biodiversity yet also threaten the environment, (6) a health risk and ...

Nature, science, religion. Each term carries with it claims to truth: nature inasmuch as it conveys our beliefs of how things naturally are and should be, science in and through its methods, evident results, and institutional prestige, and religion in its objects and the commitments they generate among devotees.

Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, "Changing Forests" explores how the indigenous Lenca community of La Campa, Honduras, has conserved and transformed their communal forests through the experiences of colonialism, opposition to state-controlled logging, and the recent adoption of export-oriented coffee production. It merges political ecology, collective-action theories, and institutional analysis to study how the people and forests...