The Scarcity Slot : Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana

The Scarcity Slot Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.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 Othe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Logan, Amanda L., 1980-, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press [2020]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:California Studies in Food and Culture
Materias:
Food security > Ghana > Banda (Brong-Ahafo Region)
Food security > Ghana > Banda (Brong-Ahafo Region).
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424826306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Excavating Longue Durée Histories of Food Security in Africa
  • 2. Choosing Local over Global during the Columbian Exchange
  • 3. Tasting Privilege and Privation during Asante Rule and the Atlantic Slave Trade
  • 4. Creating Chronic Food Insecurity in the Gold Coast Colony
  • 5. Consuming a Remotely Global Modernity in Recent Times
  • 6. Eating and Remembering Past Cultural Achievements
  • Appendix A. Methodology
  • Appendix B. Archaeobotanical Data
  • Appendix C. Wild Leaves Used by Modern Villages
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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