Hunger for Money

The haphazard process of maize market liberalization produces conditions for maize to assume a money function in the Tonga-speaking region of Mayindi, Zambia. Drawing on ethnographic data, this article analyzes the ways in which members of polygynous households in Mayindi attempt to navigate the intra-household tensions provoked by the use of a staple food as a form of money. In an effort to reconcile these tensions, co-wives in many polygynous households now distribute maize equally among themselves, regardless of how many people each individual woman is responsible for feeding. I argue that while this form of maize distribution leaves some members of the household food-insecure, it also serves to maintain critical aspects of women's social identities as mothers to their children and members of their matrilineage

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