Food, Culture, and Survival in an African City

Download or read book Food, Culture, and Survival in an African City written by K. Flynn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Based on anthropologist Karen Coen Flynn's study of Mwanza, Tanzania, this work draws on the personal accounts of over 350 market vendors, low, middle and high-income consumers, urban farmers as well as those, including children, 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.