Jessica Barnes

Staple Security

Bread and Wheat in Egypt

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Produktbeschreibung

Jessica Barnes explores the central role that bread and wheat play in Egyptian daily life as well as the anxieties surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out these staples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018520
• ISBN-10: 1478018526
• Artikelnr.: 62812245

Autorenporträt

Jessica Barnes is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina. She is author of Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Transliteration and Units  vii
Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction  1
1. Staple Becomings  39
2. Gold of the Land  81
3. Grain on the Move  113
4. Subsidized Bread (with Mariam Taher)  153
5. Homemade Bread  191
Conclusion  225
Notes  239
References  271
Index  289