Nourishing Life
eBook - ePub

Nourishing Life

Foodways and Humanity in an African Town

  1. 234 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nourishing Life

Foodways and Humanity in an African Town

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Preface
  7. Notes on Text
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1. Blood, Vitality, and Diet
  11. Chapter 2. Labor, Reason, and Compassion
  12. Chapter 3. Witches, Animals, and Humans
  13. Chapter 4. Salt, Sex, and Fire
  14. Chapter 5. Weight, Nutrition, and Body Size
  15. Conclusion
  16. Glossary
  17. References
  18. Index