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Tag Archives: Commodity flows
Gathering Divergent Forest Honeys: Collections and Commodity Flows in the Philippines
When I began researching honey collecting in the Philippines, I never anticipated that making visual collections of objects and images associated with marketing honey was going to become a powerful way of stimulating discussion about my study. But the clues were there all along. Collections are things brought together, in so many senses of the term. Such assemblages have a capacity for telling stories about how different products make their ways through the world, and into our homes, bodies and lives. Continue reading
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Tagged Commodity flows, engagement, food, forestry, indigenous people, NGOs, Non-Timber Forest Products, Philippines, socio-environmental justice
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Paige West on coffee, commodities, and community engagement
ENGAGEMENT editor Rebecca Garvoille recently caught up with Paige West, the Tow Associate Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, to discuss her new book, From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea (2012, Duke University Press), and its broader contributions to promoting social and environmental justice. In this interview, Dr. West recounts the multiple and inspiring ways her ideas and knowledge circulate far beyond her book (and academia) to effect positive change. This interview kicks off an ENGAGEMENT series, which explores how environmental-anthropological book projects have profound and important impacts on the world around us and inspire meaningful engagements in study sites across the globe. Continue reading
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Tagged books, coffee, Commodity flows, engagement, food, interview, Papua New Guinea, socio-environmental justice, trade
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