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The scarcity slot : excavating histories of food security in Ghana /
"The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa's deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of 'the scarcity slot,' a kind of Othering based on presumed differences in resources. Weaving together a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | California studies in food and culture ;
75. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Excavating longue durée histories of food security in Africa
- Choosing local over global during the Columbian exchange (c. 1400-1650 AD)
- Tasting privilege and privation during Asante rule and the Atlantic slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries
- Creating chronic food insecurity in the Gold Coast colony (c. 1890s-1940s)
- Consuming a remotely global modernity, c.1940s-2009
- Eating and remembering past cultural achievements
- Appendix A : methodology
- Appendix B : archaeobotanical data
- Appendix C : wild leaves used by modern villages.