Food, Culture, and Survival in an African City
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 27. September 2016
254 Seiten
978-1-137-07986-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
A rich ethnographic portrait of food-provisioning processes in a contemporary African city, offering valuable lessons about the powerful roles of gender, migration, exchange, sex, and charity in food acquisition. Based on anthropologist Karen Coen Flynn's study of Mwanza, Tanzania, this work draws on the personal accounts of over 350 market vendors, low, middle and high-income consumers, urban farmers as well as those, including children, who live on the streets. This strikingly original work offers interdisciplinary appeal to a broad audience of both students and professionals interested in anthropology, African studies, urban studies, gender studies and development economics.
KAREN COEN FLYNN is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Akron, USA.
KAREN COEN FLYNN is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Akron, USA.
Weitere Details
Inhalt
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of Kiswahili Terms
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Researching Food in Mwanza
- 3. Changing Patterns of Consumption: Effects and Determinants
- 4. Mwanza's African and Asian Households
- 5. Historical Transformations in Household Composition
- 6. Pooling, Straddling, Juggling, and Balancing on One Foot
- 7. Farming the City
- 8. Food, Gender, and Survival among Street Adults
- 9. Lessons on Food, Childhood, and Work from Street Girls and Boys
- 10. Food Entitlement, Charity, and "The City"
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index of Authors
- Index of Terms
