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The Scarcity Slot Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana The Scarcity Slot Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana Amanda L. Logan UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Luminos is the Open Access monograph publishing program from UC Press. Luminos provides a framework for preserving and reinvigorating monograph publishing for the future and increases the reach and visibility of important scholarly work. Titles published in the UC Press Luminos model are published with the same high standards for selection, peer review, production, and marketing as those in our traditional program. www.luminosoa.org The Scarcity Slot The Scarcity Slot Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana Amanda L. Logan UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS University of California Press Oakland, California © 2020 by Amanda L. Logan This work is licensed under a Creative Commons [CC-BY-NC-ND] license. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses. Suggested citation: Logan, A. L. The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.98 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Logan, Amanda L., author. Title: The scarcity slot : excavating histories of food security in Ghana / Amanda L. Logan. Other titles: California studies in food and culture; 75. Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] | Series: California studies in food and culture; 75 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020022842 (print) | LCCN 2020022843 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520343757 (paperback) | ISBN 9780520975149 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Food security—Ghana—Banda (Brong-Ahafo Region) Classification: LCC HD9017.G453 B45 2020 (print) | LCC HD9017.G453 (ebook) | DDC 338.1/9667—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020022842 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020022843 Manufactured in the United States of America 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For the cholƐƐlƐƐs of Banda Contents List of Illustrations ix Prologue and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Excavating Longue Durée Histories of Food Security in Africa 19 2. Choosing Local over Global during the Columbian Exchange 39 3. Tasting Privilege and Privation during Asante Rule and the Atlantic Slave Trade 61 4. Creating Chronic Food Insecurity in the Gold Coast Colony 95 5. Consuming a Remotely Global Modernity in Recent Times 129 6. Eating and Remembering Past Cultural Achievements 158 Appendix A. Methodology 169 Appendix B. Archaeobotanical Data 177 Appendix C. Wild Leaves Used by Modern Villages 183 Notes 187 References 197 Index 217 Illustrations MAPS 1. Location of the Banda region within West Africa 14 2. Archaeological sites in the Banda region discussed in text 15 3. Nineteenth-century polities and Asante roads 71 4. Geopolitical divisions in Asante in the early nineteenth century 72 5. British Gold Coast, showing cocoa-producing regions, circa 1930 101 FIGURES 1. Oxygen 18 isotope data as a proxy for precipitation 48 2. Plant remains identified in Early Makala kitchen deposits at Makala Kataa 85 3. Distribution of grain crops and byproducts in Early Makala kitchen deposits at Makala Kataa 85 4. Numbers of slaves embarked from the Gold Coast, 1619–1840 91 5. Agricultural cycle in the Banda area, 2009 136 6. Schematic cross-section of mixed farming on mounds 138 7. How to make tuo zafi 141 8. Wehan 147 9. Kotro papa 152 10. Fuura 152 ix x Illustrations 11. YƆƆrƆdƆkono (chapila) 160 12. Faaro 160 13. Making food for the Olden Times Food Fair 161 TABLES 1. Tallensi productive and food cycles in 1934 120 2. “Olden times” dishes of the Banda region 150 3. Summary botanical dataset 177 4. Ubiquity analysis, by mound and context 178 5. Summary count and percent frequency data for grain crops 179 6. Presence/absence of plant taxa, by phase 181 7. Wild leaves used, by village 183 Prologue and Acknowledgments This book is the product of nearly two decades of learning about and investigat- ing African foodways. Most Westerners assume African food and agriculture are impoverished in some way, a view created by popular media and a lack of knowl- edge about Africans and their rich histories. But the beauty of empirical research is that with each new source of data we peel away another set of assumptions and begin to reveal new narratives and possibilities. This volume presents a critical engagement with some of those layers, ones that I term, cumulatively, “the scarcity slot.” My primary goal is accessibility, so I try to avoid jargon, scientific names, and academic beating around the bush. The cri- tiques I make are direct, because I feel it is our job as scholars and educators to debunk some of the more problematic stereotypes that have emerged, especially those with real-life implications for the people we work with. Such stereotypes often have long afterlives, and changing deeply entrenched assumptions is an uphill battle, as attested by the large array of works devoted to toppling the most tenacious stereotypes about the African continent. I add to these efforts and try to make these engagements clear for students of African food security, food history, and archaeology, as well as policymakers who might be curious about how the past informs the present. I have been exceptionally fortunate to work with the Banda community in west-central Ghana, and to be able to build upon the foundational research and relationships established there by Ann Stahl. A key frame throughout the volume, and an assumption that is fundamental to anthropology and social history, is the value of deep engagement with local contexts. In North America, archaeologists are usually trained as anthropologists, though that is not always reflected in the xi xii Prologue and Acknowledgments questions we ask about the past or in our engagement with local descendent popu- lations. Over the course of many field seasons across East Africa, West Africa, and South America, I became increasingly frustrated with how the questions posed by standard archaeological research often lacked relevance to the rural and often impoverished communities surrounding archaeological sites. These concerns came to a head when I started to interview elderly women in Banda in 2009. I hoped to understand changes in food practices over time, but I soon learned that food change was intricately bound up in larger political, eco- nomic, and cultural shifts. Indeed, food was often the canary in the coal mine, one of the first indicators that major structural changes were afoot. This recognition spurred me to adopt a more open interview format, in the hopes of understanding the context of food change. I made sure my interlocutors could ask me questions too. The first and most common question for me was: “Of what use is this project to us?” Although this query had long been brewing in the back of my head, I did not know how to answer it—but I tried, and it was in these efforts that the seeds of this monograph were born. This book is an attempt to answer that question, even if more work remains to be done. I am lucky to be able to build off (and access, thanks to Northwestern Univer- sity’s exceptional African Studies Library) the work of scholars across a wide array of disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, history, agrarian studies, and more. The topic of my research, rather than the discipline in which I am trained, has defined my focus. As Scholliers and Claflin (2012) argue, food history is a nondisciplinary affair. Throughout the volume, I build on the excellent work of scholars in other disciplines—especially African history—and suggest that we use these rich insights to advance a dedicated history of food security in the African continent. The diverse array of scholarship that I am able to pull into the service of creating this history attests to its legibility and quality, but as is to be expected when using studies on one topic to address another, gaps emerge, and it is impor- tant that we acknowledge those holes. My goal in this volume is not to attempt a comprehensive exposition but rather to bring historical works related to food security in West Africa together in order to provoke more work in this area. ••• The seeds for this study were planted in my early days as an undergraduate stu- dent, when I was fortunate to come under the mentorship of Cathy D’Andrea. Cathy taught me how to analyze plant remains and introduced me to Africa in the classroom and through fieldwork in Ethiopia and Sudan. She also trained me in ethnoarchaeology, a method I expanded into the food ethnography I detail in the final chapters of this book. During master’s studies with Debby Pearsall, I not only gained technical aptitude in phytolith analysis, but also, and perhaps just as importantly, learned how empirical data can challenge deeply entrenched beliefs about the past. Christine Hastorf’s work and mentorship have encouraged me Prologue and Acknowledgments xiii to explore how paleoethnobotany can be used to speak to social theory. I was fortunate to work on Ann Stahl’s Banda Research Project in Ghana for my dis- sertation research. Not only was the archaeology just plain “cool,” but many local community members were invested in talking about the past. The now almost thirty-five-year span of the BRP also meant that we knew a tremendous amount about Banda’s past. Under Ann’s tutelage, the BRP team collected over sixteen hundred flotation samples from nearly all contexts excavated, as well as a large number of soil and artifact samples, providing a ready archive for me to explore changing foodways. A major turning point and inspiration came during a postdoc in interdisciplinary food studies at Indiana University, as part of a Mellon Saw- yer seminar on food choice.
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