Stimulating consumption: Yerba mate myths, markets, and meanings from conquest to present

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 6-36

  Folch, Christine ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; HERB; ISLAMISM; MARKET;

LEBANON;

CROTON OVALIFOLIUS; CUCURBITA;

EID: 77949802476     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417509990314     Document Type: Article

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