Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Arianna Huhn
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Volume: 7
ISBN: 9781789208894
ISBN 10: 1789208890
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 10 September 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Lucid and at times lyrical, this study will be valuable to scholars in food studies, African Studies, and Anthropology more generally. The accessible writing style [makes] it possible to use this manuscript in the classroom at a variety of undergraduate and graduate levels . Kathryn M. de Luna, Georgetown University
“The nuanced discussion of the Nyanja concepts of nourishment, as it relates to the dietary quality of vitamina (vitamins) ascribed to certain foods and as dependent on ‘interdependence, cooperative labor, compassion, and moral intelligence’, is thoughtful and challenging...Recommended.” • Choice “…offers important insights into what it is that people in sub-Saharan Africa have over time produced, traded, and consumed… This book is a valuable contribution to the study of commodity chains and will be useful for any persons interested in expanding their knowledge of commodities, capitalism, consumption, African history, environmental studies, and foodways.” • African Studies Review “Lucid and at times lyrical, this study will be valuable to scholars in food studies, African Studies, and Anthropology more generally. The accessible writing style [makes] it possible to use this manuscript in the classroom at a variety of undergraduate and graduate levels”. • Kathryn M. de Luna, Georgetown University
Author Information
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.
