Title Guaraná : how Brazil embraced the world's most caffeine-rich plant / Seth Garfield.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	An eye on the past and the present -- The roots of history and myth -- Colonial missions: remaking plants and people -- Silva Coutinho's plant: nineteenth-century science and Amazonian geopolitics -- Drug prospects: guaraná's Anglo-American boom and bust -- From Guarani to guaraná: forging a national industry -- Message in a bottle: selling guaraná -- Growing the pie: transformations in Brazilian agriculture and diet -- Fast times, slow food: indigenizing modernity -- A Brazilian original.
Summary	"Guaraná'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"-- Provided by publisher.
Biography	Seth Garfield is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Guarana -- Brazil -- History.
	Guarana -- Social aspects -- Brazil.
	Guarana -- Economic aspects -- Brazil.
	Maue Indians -- Ethnobotany.
	Soft drink industry -- Brazil -- History.
	Caffeine -- Social aspects -- Brazil.
	Guarana. (OCoLC)fst00948756
	Soft drink industry. (OCoLC)fst01124119
	Brazil. (OCoLC)fst01206830
Other Form:	Print version: Garfield, Seth, 1967- Guaraná. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022] 9781469671260 (DLC) 2022024392 (OCoLC)1334652268
ISBN	9781469671291 electronic book
	1469671298 electronic book
	9781469671284 electronic book
	146967128X electronic book
Standard No.	40031536274

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