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Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana
This book investigates how cooking, eating, and identity are connected to the local micro-climates in each of Ghana’s 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 ...
Meditation in the College Classroom
Provides the most comprehensive, detailed guide on how exactly to introduce and implement meditation in the college classroom.
Food and Families in the Making
Even in the context of rapid material and social change in urban Morocco, women, and especially those from low-income households, continue to invest a lot of work in preparing good food for their families. Through the lens of domestic food preparation, this book looks at knowledge reproduction, how we know cooking and its role in the making of everyday family life. It also examines a political economy of cooking that situates Marrakchi women’s lived experiences in the broader context of persisting poverty and food insecurity in Morocco.
Sharing Yerba Mate
Drinking yerba mate is a daily, communal ritual that has brought together South Americans for some five centuries. In lively prose and with vivid illustrations, Rebekah E. Pite explores how this Indigenous infusion, made from the naturally caffeinated leaves of a local holly tree, became one of the most distinctive and widely consumed beverages in the region. Latin American food and commodity studies have focused on consumption in the global north, but Pite tells the story of yerba mate in South America, illuminating dynamic and exploitative circuits of production, promotion, and consumption. Ideas about who should harvest and serve yerba mate, along with visions of the archetypical mate dri...
Food Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Education and Care
This book is about food and feeding in early childhood education and care, offering an exploration of the intersection of children’s food, education, family intervention, and public health policies. The notion of ‘good’ food for children is often communicated as a matter of common sense by policymakers and public health authorities; yet the social, material, and practical aspects of feeding children are far from straightforward. Drawing on a detailed ethnographic study conducted in a London nursery and children’s centre, this book provides a close examination of the practices of childcare practitioners, children, and parents, asking how the universalism of policy and bureaucracy fits...
The Scarcity Slot
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The Scarcity Slot is the first book to critically examine food security in Africa’s deep past. Amanda L. Logan argues that African foodways have been viewed through the lens of ‘the scarcity slot,’ a kind of Othering based on presumed differences in resources. Weaving together archaeological, historical, and environmental data with food ethnography, she advances a new approach to building long-term histories of food security on the continent in order to combat these stereotypes. Focusing on a case study in Banda, Ghana that spans the past six centuries, The Scarcity Slot reveals that people thrived during a severe, centuries-long drought just as Europeans arrived on the coast, with a major decline in food security emerging only recently. This narrative radically challenges how we think about African foodways in the past with major implications for the future.
The Emergence of National Food
Introduction / Atsuko Ichijo, Venetia Johannes, Ronald Ranta -- Salt cod and the making of a Portuguese national cuisine / José Sobral -- The cookbook in Mexico : a founding document of the modern nation / Sarah Bak-Geller Corona -- Potica : the leavened bread that reinvented Slovenia / Andreja Vezovnik and Ana Tominc -- Bacillus bulgaricus : the breeding of national pride / Nevena Nancheva -- Food and nationalism in an independent Ghana / Brandi Simpson Miller -- Signifying poverty, class, and nation through Scottish foods : from haggis to deep-fried mars bars / Joy Fraser and Christine Knight -- Catalan culinary nationalism : a contemporary case study / Venetia Johannes -- The constructio...
Social Media, Crisis Communication, and Emergency Management
Although recent global disasters have clearly demonstrated the power of social media to communicate critical information in real-time, its true potential has yet to be unleashed. Social Media, Crisis Communication, and Emergency Management: Leveraging Web 2.0 Technologies teaches emergency management professionals how to use social media to improve emergency planning, preparedness, and response capabilities. It provides a set of guidelines and safe practices for using social media effectively across a range of emergency management applications. Explaining how emergency management agencies can take advantage of the extended reach these technologies offer, the book supplies cutting-edge method...
Behavioral Disorders
Addresses the perspectives and issues related to behaviour disorders and involves leaders in the behaviour disorders field. This book addresses such topics as: social skills training, effective instruction, response-to-intervention, transition, technology finally ending with working families, and teacher preparation.
