Nourishing Life - Foodways and Humanity in an African Town

Informationen zum Autor Arianna Huhn is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino and Director of the university's Anthropology Museum. Her work on Mozambican foodways received the Terence Ranger Prize from the Journal of Southern African Studies in 2017, and the Christine Wilson Award from the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition in 2012. Klappentext In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations. Embedded within central themes in the study of Africa south of the Sahara, the volume combines insights from philosophy and food studies to find textured layers of meaning in a seemingly simple cuisine. Inhaltsverzeichnis Download PDF of Table of Contents List of Figures Preface Notes on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Blood, Vitality, and Diet Chapter 2. Labor, Reason, and Compassion Chapter 3. Witches, Animals, and Humans Chapter 4. Salt, Sex, and Fire Chapter 5. Weight, Nutrition, and Body Size Conclusion Glossary References Index

Product details

• Authors: Arianna Huhn
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781789208894
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-889-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Food, Nutrition, and Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > International cuisine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Afrika, Nationale, regionale und ethnische Küche, Cooking / Wine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / African