Audrey Richards

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the bold statement 'nutrition as a biological process is more fundamental than sex'.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781138157767
• ISBN-10: 1138157767
• Artikelnr.: 71685644

Autorenporträt

Audrey I. Richards (1899-1984) was for many years lecturer in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and is the author of Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia and Chisungu: a girls' initiation ceremony among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia. She was one of the first anthropologists to study women's lives and the social sphere and was herself one of the first female anthropologists in British academia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 History of the Problem
Chapter 2 Human Relationships and Nutritive Needs
Chapter 3 Food and Family Sentiment in Bantu Society
Chapter 4 Food Production and Incentives to Work
Chapter 5 Kinship Sentiment and Economic Organization
Chapter 6 Economic Functions of the Clan and Tribe
Chapter 7 Food as a Symbol