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Title: | Maize and the Malnutrition Conundrum in South Africa |
Author: | Booyens, Johan |
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. |