Join Professor Christopher Krupa of UTSC Anthropology and discussants Gloria Perez-Rivera (Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University) and George Mantzios (postdoctoral researcher, University of Toronto) for a seminar discussing Prof. Krupa's award-winning book A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador. This first of two seminars will focus on the themes of Finance and Historicity.
In A Feast of Flowers, Prof. Krupa goes behind the scenes in Ecuador's massive cut flower industry, which dominates the supply of cut flowers into North America and relies heavily on Indigenous labour. Combining nearly two decades of historical and ethnographic research, the book is an examination of how capitalism expands in post-colonial conditions, and the legacy of the racial constructs that colonialism imposed on the region.
A Feast of Flowers received the 2023 Society for Economic Anthropology Book Prize and the 2023 Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Book Prize.