| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 328 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
New African histories
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New African histories series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-316) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Making the generous cooking pot, ca. 1890-1920 -- Body politics, taste matters, and the creation of the Office du Niger, ca. 1920-1944 -- "We farmed money" : re-shaping the Office and reclaiming taste -- Reengineering the Office : cooking with metal pots and threshing machines -- Rice babies and food aid : reengineering women's labor and taste during the Great Sahel Drought -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"By advocating for an understanding of rural Malian women as engineers, Laura Ann Twagira rejects the persistent image of African women as subjects without technological knowledge or access and instead reveals a hidden history about gender, development, and improvisation. In so doing, she also significantly expands the scope of African science and technology studies. Using the Office du Niger agricultural project as a case study, Twagira argues that women used modest technologies (such as a mortar and pestle or metal pots) and organized female labor to create, maintain, and reengineer a complex and highly adaptive food production system. While women often incorporated labor-saving technologies into their work routines, they did not view their own physical labor as the problem it is so often framed to be in development narratives. Rather, women's embodied techniques and knowledge were central to their ability to transform a development project centered on export production into an environmental resource that addressed local taste and consumption needs"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mali. Office du Niger.
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Mali. Office du Niger. |
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Women in agriculture -- Mali.
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Women in agriculture. |
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Mali. |
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Agricultural development projects -- Mali.
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Agricultural development projects. |
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Agricultural processing -- Mali.
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Agricultural processing. |
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Women -- Mali -- Economic conditions.
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Women. |
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Economic conditions. |
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Women -- Economic conditions. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Twagira, Laura Ann. Embodied engineering. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2021 9780821424414 (DLC) 2020050210 |
| ISBN |
0821447335 electronic book |
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9780821447338 electronic book |
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9780821424414 hardcover |
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