Coffee Culture

Local Experiences, Global Connections

Catherine M. Tucker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781317392248
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

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 a health food; and (7) a focus of alternative trade efforts. This book presents coffee as a commodity that ties the world together, from the coffee producers and pickers who tend the plantations in tropical nations, to the middlemen and processors, to the consumers who drink coffee without ever having to think about how the drink reached their hands.

Index

Abyssinia see Ethiopia

Adams, John: breaking the tea habit 55–6

advertising campaigns: and social values 20–2

agroforestry 43, 96, 100; in Southeast Asia 115

alternative trade organization 131–3, 135

American Revolution 55–6

anthropology of stuff xii–xiii

arabica coffee: best growing temperatures for 101; in Colombia 59, 61–2; companies substituting robusta coffee 22; harvested by hand 90; increased demand for 121; vs. robusta coffee 75–6, 84, 101; steps in production and maintenance of 86; sun-grown 97; see also dry-method processing, wet-method processing

ATO see alternative trade organization

Avicenna on coffee’s effects 75

Baba Budan: sneaks coffee seeds to India 38

beer: consumption 46; in Germany 65–6

behavioral change 72, 74; counteracting social forces 71; and the human brain 70–1

Benz, Melitta: and filter-brewed coffee 19

biodiversity: and third wave 145; see also coffee plantation: and biodiversity

Bourdieu, Pierre: on preferences emerging from social class 11, 13–14, 16

Brazil: and coffee cycle 116–17, 19; coffee production in 60–1, 119; effort to balance supply and demand 117; and export tax 60; stabilization policies 119; sugarcane production in 60–1; use of machinery for dry process 104

Bretton Woods Accord 129–30, 131

bring-your-own-mug discounts 70

Britain: abandonment of coffee 63–5; early passion for coffee 63

British East India Company 40–1, 63

Byler, Edna Ruth 130–1

Café Foy 57

Café Procope: and literary luminaries 56

caffeine 6–7; and the French Revolution 56–7; and the Industrial Revolution 46, 48

Catherine of Braganza 64

Central America: civil wars in 116; and coffee crisis 122; and coffee politics 116; and coffee production 40, 46, 100, 102, 116; and contamination from coffee processing 107

certification programs: to combat environmental degradation 109; costs of 139; proliferation of 133; shift in emphasis of 134

chemical inputs 27–9, 98–9

climate change: affecting sustainability 102; causing loss of coffee cultivation areas 102; causing more frequent and severe weather events 101–2; increasing coffee pests 102

Coca-Cola 22–3; and American Civil Rights Movement 24; coffee-flavored 23; as good corporate citizen 24–5; and the Industrial Revolution...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Series Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• PARTI COFFEE CULTURE, SOCIAL LIFE, AND GLOBAL HISTORY
• PART II ACCOLADES AND ANTIPATHIES: COFFEE CONTROVERSIES THROUGH TIME
• PART III COFFEE PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING
• PART IV MARKETS AND THE MODERN WORLD SYSTEM
• Appendix: A Coffee Culture Timeline
• References
• Index