Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests: Globalizing Coffee in Northwest Tanzania

by Brad Weiss

Overview

Weiss explores the dynamic relation of specific local, regional, and global understandings of value as manifested in the coffee of rural Haya communities. His investigation offers critical insight into the significance of colonial and postcolonial encounters in this region of Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780325070957
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/17/2003
Series:	Social History of Africa
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	308,653
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Brad Weiss is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary.

Table of Contents

CONTENTSCONTENTSContents Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Sacred Life of Plants: Placing Royal Growth 15 2. Coffee, Cowries, and Currencies: Transforming Material Wealth 47 3. A Religion of the Rupee: Imagining the Coffee Market 78 4. Wood, Land, and Water: A Colonial Arboretum 107 5. "A Wild Orchard Crop": Contentions in Agricultural Innovation 141 6. Extraordinary Measures: The Techniques of Modernity 162 Bibliography 191 Index 199