An ethnography of hunger : politics, subsistence, and the unpredictable grace of the sun / Kristin D. Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Kristin, 1974- author.

Series:

Framing the global (Series)

Framing the global book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subsistence economy--Tanzania.

Subsistence economy.

Food security--Social aspects--Tanzania.

Food security.

Food security--Political aspects--Tanzania.

Farmers--Tanzania--Economic conditions.

Farmers.

Rural conditions.

Economic conditions.

Social aspects.

Tanzania--Rural conditions.

Tanzania.

Tanzania--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 207 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction: Subsistence citizenship

Part I: The frames of subsistence in Singida: cosmology, ethnography, history. 1. Hunger in relief: village life and livelihood ; 2. The unpredictable grace of the sun: cosmology, conquest, and the politics of subsistence

Part II: The power of the poor on the threshold of subsistence. 3. We shall meet at the pot of ugali: sociality, differentiation, and diversion in the distribution of food ; 4. Crying, denying, and surviving rural hunger

Part III: Subsistence citizenship. 5. Subsistence versus development ; 6. Patronage, rights, and the idioms of rural citizenship

Conclusion: The seasons of subsistence and citizenship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Phillips, Kristin, 1974- author. Ethnography of hunger

ISBN:

9780253038364

0253038367

9780253038371

0253038375

OCLC:

1020559929