Food, culture, and survival in an African city / Karen Coen Flynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flynn, Karen Coen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Tanzania--Mwanza District.

Food habits.

Food consumption--Tanzania--Mwanza District.

Food consumption.

Food supply--Tanzania--Mwanza District.

Food supply.

Nutrition policy--Tanzania--Mwanza District.

Nutrition policy.

Mwanza District (Tanzania)--Social conditions.

Mwanza District (Tanzania).

Mwanza District (Tanzania)--Economic conditions.

Tanzania--Mwanza District.

Physical Description:

xviii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Summary:

Based on Anthropologist Karen Coen Flynn's study of Mwanza, Tanzania, Food, Culture, and Survival in an African City draws on the personal accounts of over 350 market vendors, low-, middle- and high-income consumers, urban farmers, and those who live on the streets. This strikingly original work offers interdisciplinary appeal to a broad audience of both students and professionals interested in anthropology, African studies, urban studies, gender studies and development economics. This is a rich ethnographic portrait of food-provisioning processes in a contemporary African city, offering valuable lessons about the powerful roles of gender, migration, exchange, sex, and charity in food acquisition.

Contents:

2 Researching Food in Mwanza 31

3 Changing Patterns of Consumption: Effects and Determinants 39

4 Mwanza's African and Asian Households 67

5 Historical Transformations in Household Composition 97

6 Pooling, Straddling, Juggling, and Balancing on One Foot 113

7 Farming the City 129

8 Food, Gender, and Survival among Street Adults 153

9 Lessons on Food, Childhood, and Work from Street Girls and Boys 175

10 Food Entitlement, Charity, and "The City" 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-242) and indexes.

ISBN:

1403966389

1403966397

OCLC:

56686520