Quinoa Bust

Emma McDonell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and coauthor of Critical Approaches to Superfoods.

• ContentsNote on Names and Places Quinoa Timeline Introduction: Quinoa’s Promise Part oneMiracle Crop1 • Reimagining the Future of a Neglected Crop 2 • Whitening a Comida de Indios: Culinary Bioprospecting and the Inca Superfood Part twoBoom3 • The Quinoa Frontier: Making a Productive and Orderly Landscape 4 • Producing Good Quinoa: The Moral Politics of Quality Standards Part threeBust5 • Disarticulations: Uneven Risks and Fragile Relations in the Quinoa Bust6 • Fragmented Knowledge and Intractable Residues in the Quinoa Supply Chain 7 • (Re)building Reputation: Origin-Based Labels and the Elusive Promise of Differentiation Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Quinoa Production, Export, and Price Charts Notes Bibliography Index

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