Tropics of consumption: 'Getting with the fetish' of 'exotic' fruit?

Geographies of Commodity Chains

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 173-192

  Cook, Ian ^a   Crang, Philip ^b   Thorpe, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SPA ^*  (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84917371628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203448694     Document Type: Chapter

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