Abstract
Abstract:This article draws on newspaper commentary, Nyaturu hunger lore, and ethnographic research to describe how central Tanzanian villagers accessed food aid from the state during the East African food crisis of 2006. Through leveraging their political support and their participation in national development agendas, rural inhabitants claimed their rights. Yet it was through these exchanges that the state converted food aid into political power. The article argues that the highly ritualized gift of food aid naturalizes a contemporary political and economic order in which, counterintuitively, it is rural farmers who go hungry.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Anthropology,Cultural Studies
Reference38 articles.
1. Some Swahili Political Words
2. gastro-politics in Hindu South Asia
3. United Republic of Tanzania. 2002. Population Census. www.tanzania.go.tz/census.
Cited by
15 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献
1. Does Staple Food Sufficiency Ensure Food Variety? A Comparative Analysis from Southern, Southeastern, and Central Tanzania;Changing Dietary Patterns, Indigenous Foods, and Wild Foods;2023
2. The Material basis of Cooperation: how Scarcity Reduces Trusting Behaviour;The Economic Journal;2022-11-30
3. The future sits in places: Electricity, value, and infrastructural triage in Tanzania;Economic Anthropology;2022-03-19
4. Dissent as cybercrime: social media, security and development in Tanzania;Journal of Eastern African Studies;2021-07-03
5. Kristin D. Phillips. An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. 207 pp. Bibliography. Index. $28.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-03840-1.;African Studies Review;2021-01-14