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Volume 8
Food, Nutrition, and Culture
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Food and Families in the Making
Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco
Katharina Graf
234 pages, 20 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-467-9 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (April 2024)
eISBN 978-1-80539-468-6 eBook Not Yet Published
Reviews
“Though the idea for the book looks simple at first, the message is complex and incredibly important… (it) contributes to many fields of study – women's studies, North African studies, ethnography and autoethnography, but also political economy of neoliberal regimes in the Global South.” • Katja Žvan Elliott, Slovene Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“I loved it. I really enjoyed reading it. In terms of books about food, I think the author gives one of the best accounts of learning with your body; learning gradually; learning through failing.” • Anne Meneley, Trent University
Description
Even in the context of rapid material and social change in urban Morocco, women, and especially those from a low-income household, 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 on 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 experience in the broader context of persisting poverty and food insecurity in Morocco.
Katharina Graf is a research fellow at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnography at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. She held her first postdoctoral position at the SOAS Food Studies Centre and has published in journals such as Gastronomica, Food, Culture & Society, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Journal of North African Studies.