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The Scarcity Slot - Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana (Paperback)
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The Scarcity Slot - Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana (Paperback)
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture, 75
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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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