ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Unearth, Miscarriage, Agribusiness
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Anthropology 2 november 21 lecture 20. Goods that are subject to market exchange. Sugar has been cultivated since prehistoric times. Until colonization of the americas, it was used sparingly in europe as a spice or medicine. Popular to only those who can afford it. Sucrose, this favored child of capitalism" epitomized the transition from one kind of society to another mintz 19885:214. From luxury spice to staple food (1650>: new working classes, industrial time, sugar and tea = proletarian hunger killers , by 1990, sugar made up 20% of calories in english diet. Meetings and behaviors: sugar and class distinction, sweetener for tea, coffee, chocolate. Sugar production in the caribbean colonies and industrial production in england were inextricably linked they fueled each other and the emergence of the global market. They shaped the daily lives the material conditions and habits of people living in both the americas and europe.
