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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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