Nourishing Life

Foodways and Humanity in an African Town

Arianna Huhn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-724-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Food, Nutrition, and Culture
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-724-9 / 1805397249
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-724-3 / 9781805397243
Zustand	Neuware