Food, Control, and Resistance

In recent years a growing number of comparative histories have been written about the North American West and Australia, including Margaret D. Jacobs's prize-winning White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 (2011) and portions of her A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World (2014), and Ann McGrath's Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia (2015). These titles demonstrate the potential in undertaking such challenging comparative and transnational projects. In that tradition, Tamara Levi's Food, Control, and Resistance attempts to bring disparate histories and historiographies into dialog. The results merit consideration. Levi begins with a brief overview of food regimes, and their evolution, as colonial systems and indigenous practices intertwined in exchange and expansion. It is a wonder that food—so central an aspect of human society, culture, and survival—has not received more consistent attention as a lens through which to view colonial and indigenous practices. In introducing the policies of the United States and Australia, Levi convincingly links the control and regulation of food annuities or rations to schemes for controlling or regulating indigenous peoples. The first three introductory chapters take up one-quarter of the text but succinctly provide the necessary context for readers to proceed to the four case studies

Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Indigenous · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · White (mutation · Wonder · Ecology · Gender Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Psychology

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