Beads, Bodies, and Trash: Public Sex, Global Labor, and the Disposability of Mardi Gras

by David Redmon

Book Overview

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 is a work of sensory ethnography appropriate for courses in gender and sexuality; qualitative or ethnographic research methods; deviance, crime, and social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041552539X
• ISBN13: 9780415525398
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"