The making and unmaking of gendered crops in northern Ghana
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Auteurs : Martina A. Padmanabhan [Allemagne]Source :
- Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography [ 0129-7619 ] ; 2007-03.
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- Agricultural change, Agricultural crops, Agricultural development, Agricultural innovation, Agricultural innovations, Agricultural plants, Agricultural production, Author journal compilation, Bean cultivation, Blackwell, Blackwell publishing asia, Cash crop, Cash crops, Central place, Certain crops, Comparative case studies, Compound members, Conjugal contract, Cooking women, Cowpea, Crop, Crop category, Cuisine, Cultivation, Dagomba, Dagomba woman, Dagomba women, Dagombas, Dawadawa, Dawadawa seed, Dawadawa seeds, Dawadawa tree, Distribution system, East region, Elder women, Ethnic groups, Farming systems, Female soup, Food systems, Gender, Gender relations, Gendered, Gendered actors, Gendered crops, Gendered division, Gendered plants, Gendered responsibilities, Ghana, Grammatical gender, Guinea highlands, Ideological connotation, Ingredient, Intraface, Intrafaces, Kpalago, Kusasi, Kusasi people, Kusasi woman, Kusasi women, Kusasis, Local beans, Local cuisine, Local medicine, Local varieties, Male staple, Manufacturing dissent, Martina, Millet, Natal home, National university, Negotiation, Northern ghana, Northern region, Onion cultivation, Padmanabhan, Popular nomenclature, Proper meal, Rural women, Savanna, Side dish, Singapore, Social construction, Social gender, Social institutions, Social intrafaces, Social place, Social relations, Social space, Soup crop, Soup ingredient, Soup ingredient kpalago, Soup ingredients, Soybean, Spiritual medicines, Staple, Staple food, Sweet potato, Unmaking, Wola diet.
Abstract
In rural West Africa, the gendered division of labour extends to labelling certain crops as ‘male’ or ‘female’. With the introduction of new varieties of crops and technologies, these constructions of gendered plants undergo a process of renegotiation at social intrafaces. This process of attaching meaning to new features in cultivation results in the remaking of gendered crops. These negotiations, in turn, have an effect on the construction of gender in specific ethnic and environmental settings, unlinking labour from its gendered connotations and, thus, unmaking the social meaning and creating room for manoeuvre. Based on fieldwork among the Dagomba and Kusasi people in northern Ghana, this study examines how gendered responsibilities and access to the cultivation of crops are linked and expressed in obligations related to the cultural ideal of a proper meal, in this case consisting of the food categories (male) staple and (female) soup, which serve as the blueprint for assigning crops to a specific gender.
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2006.00276.x
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