Cooking Culture
Women’s Culinary Agency and Everyday Creativity in Rural Mali
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- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 30 April 2026
- ISBN 9781350382497
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 232x152x16 mm
- Weight 320 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
A holistic historical ethnography of cooking and female agency in North Africa, and of the broader cultural and historical significance of women's culinary agency, by a scholar who has done considerable prior work on food production
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Winner of a Gourmand Food Culture Book Award 2025 - 1st place in Africa category
In this open access book, Stephen Wooten offers a holistic historical ethnography of cooking and female agency in West Africa, and of the broader cultural and historical significance of women's culinary agency.
Drawing on archaeological evidence, historical accounts, and extensive ethnographic research, Stephen Wooten documents and theorizes Malian women's culinary agency. He finds that their cooking not only transforms raw ingredients into cooked fare, providing essential physical nourishment, but also helps foster fundamental values, facilitate elemental family and community dynamics, and reproduce gender identities and relations. These findings shed light on the cultural productivity of cooking within a specific African context and foster a deeper appreciation for the significance of culinary dynamics more broadly. The study makes important contributions to the fields of African studies, anthropology, and ""everyday studies"".
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
Table of Contents:
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Introduction Cooking Culture: Appreciating Everyday Creativity
1 Cooking: A ""Focus"" for Ethnographic and Theoretical Exploration
2 The Mande World: A Deeply Rooted and Living Agri-Culture
3 Making Meals, Nourishing People
4 More than Meals: The Cultural Products of Cooking
5 Cooking Matters: Learning from the Cooks of Rural Mali
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