Nourishing Life : : Foodways and Humanity in an African Town / / Arianna Huhn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Huhn, Arianna,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Food, Nutrition, and Culture ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Preface --; Notes on Text --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 Blood, Vitality, and Diet --; CHAPTER 2 Labor, Reason, and Compassion --; CHAPTER 3 Witches, Animals, and Humans --; CHAPTER 4 Salt, Sex, and Fire --; CHAPTER 5 Weight, Nutrition, and Body Size --; Conclusion --; Glossary --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789208900; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789208900?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Arianna Huhn.

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.