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Sugar and modernity in Latin America : interdisciplinary perspectives /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Carvalho, Vinicius Mariano de
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Sugars in human nutrition > Latin America.
Public health > Latin America.
Dietary Sucrose > adverse effects > Latin America.
Cultural Characteristics > Latin America.
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 > Latin America.
Sociological Factors > Latin America.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The problem of health. Is there a correlation between high sugar consumption and the increase in health problems in Latin America?
  • The preference for sweetness. Sweetness preference, sugar intake, and obesity in Latin America
  • Tasting time : the meanning of sugar in Cuba
  • The glocalized practices. Est̀s aqu̕ para ser feliz : the globalization of sweetened soft drinks in Mexico
  • The sweet tooth of mother earth : sugar's symbolic ways among the Highland Indians in Bolivia
  • Production methods and quality of sugar cane in Latin America
  • The art of slavery. The perceptions of modernity in Još Lins do Rego's sugar cane cycle, or "not all sugar is sweet"
  • "Sin az︢car no hay pa̕s" : transcultural images of sugar and modernity in the poetry of Nicol̀s Guilľn.