Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Kenya -- Introduction -- Food Processing: Embu Women and Indigenous Knowledges -- Kenya: The Land, the People, and the Socio-political Economy -- The Everyday Experiences of Embu Women -- Food Preservation and Change -- Gender Relations, Decision Making, and Food Preferences -- Indigenous Technology and the Influence of New Innovations -- Removing the Margins: Including Indigenous Women's Voices in Knowledge Production -- Contesting Knowledge: Some Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary
In Indigenous African Knowledge Production, Njoki Nathani Wane uses food-processing practices -- preparing, preserving, cooking, and serving -- as an entry point into the Indigenous knowledge of the Embu and the role that rural Embu women play in creating and transmitting it
