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Title:Maize and the Malnutrition Conundrum in South Africa
Author:Booyens, JohanISNI
Year:2001
Periodical:African Anthropologist (ISSN 1024-0969)
Volume:8
Issue:2
Period:September
Pages:137-177
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:South Africa
Southern Africa
Subjects:malnutrition
food
maize
Health and Nutrition
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Medicine, Nutrition, Public Health
Zea mays L.
diet
Nutrition policy
indigenous knowledge
Food technology
External link:https://www.ajol.info/index.php/aa/article/view/23108
Abstract:This paper gives an overview of the factors which led to maize becoming a staple food among black people in South Africa. The purported relationship between maize consumption and malnutrition, proposals as well as experimental and practical efforts to correct the dietary deficiencies of maize are briefly sketched. With reference to the historical context in which maize became a staple food in South Africa, it is concluded that the consumption of maize is not to be blamed for malnutrition in South Africa. R.A. Rappaport's theoretical principle of ecological logic and its relationship to culture contingency is used to indicate that the causal factors of malnutrition are to be found in the colonial political economy of South Africa and in the monetary logic embedded in a racially skewed free market system of production. Bibliogr., notes, sum.
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