ISBN:
9781800733725
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 192 Seiten
,
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Series Statement:
The anthropology of food and nutrition Volume 10
Series Statement:
The anthropology of food and nutrition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Abranches, Maria Food connections
DDC:
394.1/2096657
Keywords:
Bissau-Guineans Food
;
Social aspects
;
Bissau-Guineans Social life and customs
;
Food Social aspects
;
Immigrants Social life and customs
Abstract:
Spaces of Production -- Migration, Body and Adaptation: Preparing and Consuming Food away from the Land -- Temporal Connections: The Making of Memories and Aspirations through Food -- Transnational Exchange of Food: Gifs, Reciprocities and Trade -- Food Livelihoods and New Economic Spaces: A Critique of 'Informality'.
Abstract:
"Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders and consumers and a wide range of small intermediaries that operate in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal. By investigating the way meanings of food and land are embedded in everyday experiences and relationships in the various phases of the movement, on both sides of the migration, it reveals the connections that transnational processes of food production, exchange and consumption generate between two lifeworlds"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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