Banana Wars: The Sweetness of Commodities (1992)

Michel-Rolph Trouillot delivered this paper as part of a session entitled “Histories of Commodification: Papers in Honor of Sidney Mintz” at the 1992 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. The original text, archived in the Michel-Rolph Trouillot Papers at the Hannah Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago, appears here in print for the first time.