Cooking Culture : Women's Culinary Agency and Everyday Creativity in Rural Mali /

In this open access book, Stephen Wooten offers a holistic historical ethnography of cooking and female agency in West Africa, and of the broader cultural and historical significance of women's culinary agency. Drawing on archaeological evidence, historical accounts, and extensive ethnographic...

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Wooten, Stephen
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
London : Zed Books, 2024.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
In this open access book, Stephen Wooten offers a holistic historical ethnography of cooking and female agency in West Africa, and of the broader cultural and historical significance of women's culinary agency. Drawing on archaeological evidence, historical accounts, and extensive ethnographic research, Stephen Wooten documents and theorizes Malian women's culinary agency. He finds that their cooking not only transforms raw ingredients into cooked fare, providing essential physical nourishment, but also helps foster fundamental values, facilitate elemental family and community dynamics, and reproduce gender identities and relations. These findings shed light on the cultural productivity of cooking within a specific African context and foster a deeper appreciation for the significance of culinary dynamics more broadly. The study makes important contributions to the fields of African studies, anthropology, and "everyday studies". The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
Umfang:
1 online resource (200 pages)
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ISBN:
9781350382480
1350382485
Schlagworte:
Cooking, Malian
Ethnology > Mali
Mandingo (African people)
Food & society
Gender studies: women
Mali
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