Nourishing Life

Foodways and Humanity in an African Town
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-889-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Reihe: Food, Nutrition, and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huhn, Arianna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kochen, Essen, Trinken
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Huhn, Arianna
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.