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An ethnography of hunger : politics, subsistence, and the unpredictable grace of the sun /
In An Ethnography of Hunger Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence, politics, and rural development. Writing against stereotypical Western media images of spectacular famine in Africa, she examines how people live with&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Framing the global book series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Subsistence citizenship
- Part I: The frames of subsistence in Singida: cosmology, ethnography, history
- Hunger in relief
- The unpredictable grace of the sun
- Part II: The power of the poor on the threshold of subsistence
- We shall meet at the pot of Ugali
- Crying, denying, and surviving rural hunger
- Part III: Subsistence citizenship
- Subsistence versus development
- Patronage, rights, and the idioms of rural citizenship
- Conclusion: The seasons of subsistence and citizenship.