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Food, culture, and survival in an African city
- Title
- Food, culture, and survival in an African city / Karen Coen Flynn.
- Author
- Flynn, Karen Coen.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GT2853.T35 F58 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- An ethnographic portrait of food-provisioning processes in a contemporary African city, this book offers a perspective on the powerful roles of gender, migration, sex & charity in food acquisition.
- Subject
- Food habits > Tanzania > Mwanza District
- Food consumption > Tanzania > Mwanza District
- Food supply > Tanzania > Mwanza District
- Nutrition policy > Tanzania > Mwanza District
- Economic history
- Food consumption
- Food habits
- Food supply
- Nutrition policy
- Social conditions
- Ernährungsgewohnheit
- Ernährungspolitik
- Hunger
- Lebensmittelmarkt
- Nahrung
- Mwanza District (Tanzania) > Social conditions
- Mwanza District (Tanzania) > Economic conditions
- Tanzania > Mwanza District
- Tansania
- Tanzania
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and indexes.
- Contents
- Researching food in Mwanza -- Changing patterns of consumption : effects and determinants -- Mwanza's African and Asian households -- Historical transformations in household composition -- Pooling, straddling, juggling, and balancing on one foot -- Farming the city -- Food, gender, and survival among street adults -- Lessons on food, childhood, and work from street girls and boys -- Food entitlement, charity, and "the city."
- ISBN
- 1403966389
- 9781403966384
- 1403966397
- 9781403966391
- 9781137079862
- 113707986X
- LCCN
- 2004043195
- OCLC
- ocm56686520
- 56686520
- SCSB-1379174
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library