The scarcity slot : excavating histories of food security in Ghana /
Logan, Amanda L.,1980-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Excavating longue durâee histories of food security in Africa -- Choosing local over global during the Columbian exchange (c. 1400-1650 AD) -- Tasting privilege and privation during Asante rule and the Atlantic slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries -- Creating chronic food insecurity in the Gold Coast colony (c. 1890s-1940s) -- Consuming a remotely global modernity, c.1940s-2009 -- Eating and remembering past cultural achievements -- Appendix A : methodology -- Appendix B : archaeobotanical data -- Appendix C : wild leaves used by modern villages.
Food security
The scarcity slot