THE BROKEN VILLAGE: COFFEE, MIGRATION, AND GLOBALIZATION IN HONDURAS

Book ID/图书代码： 03360010B43261

English Summary/英文概要： "This is not a story about an egalitarian little Eden being corrupted by the forces of capitalist modernization.... However, the social changes wrought by migration presented qualitatively new challenges, as a functioning local economy became dependent on migrants working in distant places like Long Island and South Dakota, who lived in ways that most people in La Quebrada struggled to comprehend...." — from the book Reichman tells the story of a remote Honduran village (the pseudonymous "La Quebrada") that transformed almost overnight, because of falling coffee prices, from a thriving coffee economy to a community dependent on the migration of much of its population to the United States. Through personal stories, Reichman shows why individuals made the decision to emigrate, how these decisions were interpreted within the community, and the ways lives were changed (for better and for worse). He focuses on three specific strategies that emerged to deal with the crisis—a fair trade/organic coffee cooperative, religious campaigns for personal morality intended to counter the corrosive effects of migration, and local discourses about migrant "greed" which labeled migrants as the cause of social crisis—and shows how people attempted to make moral sense of migration and the related changes. By understanding the tensions that emerged at the local level in this one town, we gain remarkable insight into the ways globalization is changing cultures around the world.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： “这绝不是一个宣扬着平等主义的小小伊甸园被资本主义现代化的强大力量给腐化堕落的故事。。。。。。然而移民所带来的社会变迁从质量上为我们呈现出了新的挑战，就好比一直处于运行状态中的当地经济突然变得依赖于在遥远的长岛和南达科他州工作的移民们，而他们的生活方式正式绝大多数奎布拉达地区的居民们努力想要理解的。。。。。。”---在本书中，瑞奇曼讲述了一个有关于遥远的洪都拉斯小村庄的故事（该地又名“奎布拉达”），一夕之间，由于咖啡价格暴跌，这座小村庄也发生了巨大的变化，从一个富饶的咖啡经济体突然跌落成为了一个依赖于将其移民迁往美国的社区。通过其个人经历，瑞奇曼为我们展现了为何个人们会做出移民的决定，而这些决定在社区中又遭到了怎样的解读，以及生活被迫改变的种种方式（好坏参杂）。作者主要对应对危机过程中所出现的三种特定政策进行聚焦关注--一场公平的贸易/根本的个人道德竞争，既有合作，也关注宗教，目的在于对抗移民们腐化的影响和当地对于移民‘’贪婪“的看法--移民们被贴上了导致社会危机的标签，作者还试着呈现人们是如何尝试着理解移民的道德问题以及相关的改变的。通过理解这个小镇当地所出现的紧张局势，我们可对全球化改变整个世界文化的方式获得更为卓越的深入洞见。（DC）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 瑞奇曼是罗彻斯特大学人类学院的一名副教授。

Reichman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester.

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