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Decency and Excess

Name: Decency and Excess
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 04830277
Price: 92.97 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Samuel Martinez
ISBN: 9781594511882

Samuel Martinez

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English

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Libristo code: 04830277

Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd, October 2007

Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverish... Full description

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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 residents dream beyond reality. Yet plantation residents' efforts to live decently and escape from the dead hand of necessity also deepen existing divisions of ethnic identity and status. As the divide between "haves" and "have-nots" worsens as a result of neoliberal reform and the decline of sugar in international markets, this book reveals on an intensely human scale the coarsening of the social fabric of this and other communities of the world's poorer nations.