Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a
commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their
origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book
moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural
Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash will increase students
capacity to think critically about and question everyday objects
that circulate around the globe: where do objects come from, how do
they emerge, where do they end up, what are their properties, what
assemblages do they form, and what are the consequences (both
beneficial and harmful) of those properties on the environment and
human bodies? This book also asks students to confront how the
beads can contradictorily be implicated in fun, sexist, unequal,
and toxic relationships of production, consumption, and disposal.
With a companion documentary, Mardi Gras Made in China, this book
introduces students to recording technologies as possible research
tools."
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