Her hand Moves Fast

Women I; Food
by Phil Bartle
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Following the path of least resistance makes all rivers -- and some men -- crooked.
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Women are involved with food in three main ways, farming, marketing and cooking.  In all three cases, their involvement is usually as independent producers; they are not managed or controlled by anybody.  The exception is while they are young and learning; they learn from their mothers or other women that raise and socialize them.  For more about the traditional independence of Akan women, see Covert Gynocracy.  Links are here also to ritual uses of food and to working with clay, more work for women.
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Marketing
Market
Clay
Clay
Women and Children in the Kitchen
Cooking
Food for the Gods
Ritual
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Farming
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Farmer
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Marketing
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Art by Eva Campbell
Selling Tomatoes

Palm wine seller
Selling Palm Wine

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Cooking
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.Pounding Fufu
Preparing Fufu

Fufu, the Elite Starch of the Akan
Fufu in Light Soup

Pottery
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Mpayewa
Extracting Palm Oils
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Palm Oil Preparation

Ritual

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Food for the Gods


The shortest distance is not always a straight line
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See: Gender
Women I; Food
Women II;  Farming
Women III: Cooking; 2
Women IV: Marketing
Women V; Clay
Men I; Wood
Men II; Weaving
Men III; Hunting
Men IV; Transport
Oil Palm
Palm Farming
Palmwine Tapping
Palmwine Selling
Other Palm Products
Cocoa
Gender Comensality
Modern Skills
People
Kids
Gender, Introduction
Food
Farmer. Farming
Cooking Marketing Clay  
Wood
Weaving Transport Introduction: Oil Palm Tree Farming the oil palm Tapping: Collecting the palm sap
Marketing: Palm wine seller Other Palm Products Cocoa Industry Modern Skills
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