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Cahill, Colin William.

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Feral Natures and Excremental Commodities: Purity, Scale, and the More-than-Human in Indonesia.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Feral Natures and Excremental Commodities: Purity, Scale, and the More-than-Human in Indonesia./
Author:	Cahill, Colin William.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	177 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-08A(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10684715
ISBN:	9780355768701

Feral Natures and Excremental Commodities: Purity, Scale, and the More-than-Human in Indonesia.
Cahill, Colin William.

Feral Natures and Excremental Commodities: Purity, Scale, and the More-than-Human in Indonesia. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 177 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 2017.

Civet coffee, or kopi luwak as it is called in Indonesian, consists of coffee beans retrieved from the feces of civets, or cat-like, omnivorous, arboreal, nocturnal mammals. These beans are washed, processed much like any other coffee, and marketed as a luxury good. This dissertation describes the development of the civet coffee industry within the context of the broader coffee industry in Indonesia, and examines the unique relationships that are being formed between humans, civets, and coffee trees. This dissertation is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over 15 months with civet coffee producers, coffee farmers, coffee agents, cafe owners, agricultural scientists, barista communities, and representatives from various government regulatory bodies across Indonesia.

ISBN: 9780355768701Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

Feral Natures and Excremental Commodities: Purity, Scale, and the More-than-Human in Indonesia.
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