An edition of Nourishing Life (2020)

Nourishing Life

Foodways and Humanity in an African Town

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An edition of Nourishing Life (2020)

Nourishing Life

Foodways and Humanity in an African Town

"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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English
Pages
216

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Nourishing Life: Foodways and Humanity in an African Town
2024, Berghahn Books, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Nourishing Life
Nourishing Life: Foodways and Humanity in an African Town
2020, Berghahn Books, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Nourishing Life
Nourishing Life: Foodways and Humanity in an African Town
2020, Berghahn Books, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Nourishing Life
Nourishing Life: Foodways and Humanity in an African Town
2020, Berghahn Books, Incorporated
in English

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Library of Congress
GT2853.M85 H84 2020

The Physical Object

Pagination
234
Number of pages
216

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL34946071M
ISBN 13
9781789208894
LCCN
2020018336
OCLC/WorldCat
1139936761

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OL25895964W

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