Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands
Since its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has connected and transformed the environments, politics, cultures, and cuisines of vastly different societies around the world. The ‘magical’ qualities of spices mean they offer more than a mere food flavoring, often evoking memories of ch...
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| author | Derks, Annuska Rousseau, Jean-François Turner, Sarah |
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| description | Since its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has connected and transformed the environments, politics, cultures, and cuisines of vastly different societies around the world. The ‘magical’ qualities of spices mean they offer more than a mere food flavoring, often evoking memories of childhood events or specific festivals. Although spices are frequently found in our kitchen cupboards, how they get there has something of a mythical allure. In this ethnographically rich and insightful study, the authors embark on a journey of demystification that starts in the Sino-Vietnamese uplands with three spices – star anise, black cardamom, and cassia (cinnamon) – and ends on dining tables across the globe. This book foregrounds the experiences of ethnic minority farmers cultivating these spices, highlighting nuanced entanglements among livelihoods, environment, ethnic identity, and external pressures, as well as other factors at play. It then investigates the complex commodity chains that move and transform these spices from upland smallholdings and forests in this frontier to global markets, mapping the flows of spices, identifying the numerous actors involved, and teasing out critical power imbalances. Finally, it focuses on value-creation and the commoditization of these spices across a spectrum of people and places. This rich and carefully integrated volume offers new insights into upland frontier livelihoods and the ongoing implications of the contemporary agrarian transition. Moreover, it bridges the gap in our knowledge regarding how these specific spices, cultivated for centuries in the mountainous Sino-Vietnamese uplands, become everyday ingredients in Global North food, cosmetics, and medicines. Links to online resources, including story maps, provide further insights and visual highlights. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1398742024-07-09T04:46:18Z Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands Derks, Annuska Rousseau, Jean-François Turner, Sarah Derks, Annuska Rousseau, Jean-François Turner, Sarah spices commodity chains rural livelihoods ethnic minorities borderlands agrarian transition Vietnam China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences Since its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has connected and transformed the environments, politics, cultures, and cuisines of vastly different societies around the world. The ‘magical’ qualities of spices mean they offer more than a mere food flavoring, often evoking memories of childhood events or specific festivals. Although spices are frequently found in our kitchen cupboards, how they get there has something of a mythical allure. In this ethnographically rich and insightful study, the authors embark on a journey of demystification that starts in the Sino-Vietnamese uplands with three spices – star anise, black cardamom, and cassia (cinnamon) – and ends on dining tables across the globe. This book foregrounds the experiences of ethnic minority farmers cultivating these spices, highlighting nuanced entanglements among livelihoods, environment, ethnic identity, and external pressures, as well as other factors at play. It then investigates the complex commodity chains that move and transform these spices from upland smallholdings and forests in this frontier to global markets, mapping the flows of spices, identifying the numerous actors involved, and teasing out critical power imbalances. Finally, it focuses on value-creation and the commoditization of these spices across a spectrum of people and places. This rich and carefully integrated volume offers new insights into upland frontier livelihoods and the ongoing implications of the contemporary agrarian transition. Moreover, it bridges the gap in our knowledge regarding how these specific spices, cultivated for centuries in the mountainous Sino-Vietnamese uplands, become everyday ingredients in Global North food, cosmetics, and medicines. Links to online resources, including story maps, provide further insights and visual highlights. 2024-07-09T04:46:17Z 2024-07-09T04:46:17Z 2024-07-08T16:27:50Z 2022 book ONIX_20240708_9788776943141_350 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92013 9788776943141 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/139874 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92013/1/209640.pdf NIAS 10.55673/ccsa246c 10.55673/ccsa246c b46c3d90-c155-4080-9477-553f4cb19021 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 c9fff097-a6b0-4c97-afcd-d033f5f27a3d 9788776943141 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Copenhagen 10BP12_209640 Open Access Books Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation 10.13039/501100001711 open access |
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| title | Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands |
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