Food and identity in nineteenth and twentieth century Ghana : food, fights, and regionalism / Brandi Simpson Miller.
Simpson Miller, Brandi, author.
2021
GT2853.G4
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Title Food and identity in nineteenth and twentieth century Ghana : food, fights, and regionalism / Brandi Simpson Miller.
Author Simpson Miller, Brandi, author.
ISBN 9783030884031 electronic book
3030884031 electronic book
9783030884048 electronic book
303088404X electronic book
9783030884055 electronic book
3030884058 electronic book
9783030884024 hardcover
3030884023 hardcover
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88403-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 319 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-88403-1 doi
Call Number GT2853.G4
Dewey Decimal Classification 394.1209667
Summary This book investigates how cooking, eating, and identity are connected to the local micro-climates in each of Ghanas major eco-culinary zones. The work is based on several years of researching Ghanaian culinary history and cuisine, including field work, archival research, and interdisciplinary investigation. The political economy of Ghana is used as an analytical framework with which to investigate the following questions: How are traditional food production structures in Ghana coping with global capitalist production, distribution, and consumption? How do land, climate, and weather structure or provide the foundation for food consumption and how does that affect the separate traditional and capitalist production sectors? Despite the post WWII food fight that launched Ghanas bid for independence from the British empire, Ghanas story demonstrates the centrality of local foods and cooking to its national character. The cultural weight of regional traditional foods, their power to satisfy, and the overall collective social emphasis on the proper meal, have persisted in Ghana, irrespective of centuries of trade with Europeans. This book will be of interest to scholars in food studies, comparative studies, and African studies, and is sure to capture the interest of students in new ways.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Historical Data Brandi Simpson Miller is Visiting Assistant Professor of History and the Assistant Director for the Wesleyan College Center for Social and Racial Equity, Georgia, USA.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Food and identity in a globalising world.
Available in Other Form Food and identity in nineteenth and twentieth century Ghana.
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1. In search of Ghanaian food
2. Ghana's eco-culinary zones
3. The proper meal
4. The Asante and diplomatic use of food : A symphony of signals
5. Gold Coast foodways in the nineteenth century
6. Savanna foodways
7. Colonialism and local foodways
8. Globalisation and local foodways in Ghana.

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