Guarana: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant

Author/Contributor(s):	Garfield, Seth
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	12/20/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Guaranâa's journey elucidates human impacts on Amazonian ecosystems; the circulation of knowledge, goods, and power; and the promise of modernity in Latin America's largest nation. For Garfield, the beverage's cross-cultural history reveals not only the structuring of inequalities in Brazil but also the mythmaking and ordering of social practices that constitute so-called traditional and modern societies"--