Author:
Cevasco, Carla, author.
ImprintNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Imprint2022
Descriptionxii, 241 pages : map ; 25 cm
Note:Introduction: the problem of hunger in early America -- Take a hitch up in my belt: hunger cultures and knowledges -- Govern well your appetites: fasting and feasting -- Nothing which hunger will not devour: disgust -- Eaten up: cannibalism -- Give us provision: resistance -- Conclusion: plenty and scarcity.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Carla Cevasco reveals the disgusting, violent history of hunger in the context of the colonial invasion of the early northeastern North America. Locked in constant violence throughout the seventennth and eighteenth centuries, Native Americans and English and French colonists faced the pain of hunger, the fear of encounters with taboo foods, and the struggle for resources. Their mealtime encounters with rotten meat, foraged plants, and even human flesh would transform the meanings of hunger across cultures. By foregrounding hunger and its effects in the early American world, Cevasco emphasizes the fragility of the colonial project, and the strategies of resilience that Native people used to endure both scarcity and the colonial invasion. In doing so, the book proposes an interdisciplinary framework for studying scarcity, expanding the field of food studies beyond simply the study of plenty."-- Back cover.
