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Title: The Scarcity Slot Condition: New Subtitle: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana Author: Amanda L. Logan Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0520343751 EAN: 9780520343757 ISBN: 9780520343757 Publisher: University of California Press Genre: History Topic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & Math, Society & Culture Release Date: 08/12/2020 Description: 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 Othering based on presumed differences in resources. Weaving together archaeological, historical, and environmental data with food ethnography, she advances a new approach to building long-term histories of food security on the continent in order to combat these stereotypes. Focusing on a case study in Banda, Ghana that spans the past six centuries, The Scarcity Slot reveals that people thrived during a severe, centuries-long drought just as Europeans arrived on the coast, with a major decline in food security emerging only recently. This narrative radically challenges how we think about African foodways in the past with major implications for the future. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Width: 18mm Item Weight: 408g Book Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Release Year: 2020
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