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Traveling with Sugar reframes the rising diabetes epidemic as part of a five-hundred-year-old global history of sweetness and power. Amid eerie injuries, changing bodies, amputated limbs, and untimely deaths, many people across the Caribbean and Central America simply call the affliction "sugar"-or, as some say in Belize, "traveling with sugar."…


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An ethnography of the best kind - immersive, well considered, deeply researched, and thought-provoking. Sparked meaningful conversations about histories and how they are lived in the present and what it means for bodies and landscapes.

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