California Studies in Food and Culture #: The Scarcity Slot

Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana

California Studies in Food and Culture #: The Scarcity Slot
Amanda L Logan
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22 Dec 2020 US
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9780520343757
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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.

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Amanda L. Logan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University.
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ISBN-13: 9780520343757
Published: 22 Dec 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 244

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