[PDF.53fo] Decency and Excess: Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation

Decency and Excess: Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation

[PDF.az09] Decency and Excess: Global Aspirations and Material Deprivation on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation

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 | #11092115 in Books |  2006-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.56 x5.98l,1.02 | File type: PDF | 242 pages

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|| |“Decency and Excess is a plantation ethnography comparable in terms of richness of observational detail with some of the best examples of this genre. But it also engages a set of concerns that never prominently figured on the agenda of classic Caribbean

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 residen...

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