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“I Eat to Kill Hunger”: The foods of Cape Verde and the double-edged sword of Globalisation
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Cape Verde is a former Portuguese colony that experienced devastating
droughts and famines with dire demographic and social consequences up to the last
century.As the popular saying goes, “Cabo Verde não é verde” : ie1Cape Verde (meaning
‘Green Cape’) is the opposite of what its name suggests. The islanders treasure food
because they know how their ancestors and older family members suffered, maintaining to
this day a close and grateful relationship with the land. Insular as it is, this archipelago is
not immune to globalisation.This study examines some changes in the Cape Verdean diet
induced by globalisation, the way food is produced and distributed, and how locals
perceive and adapt to these trends. It draws preponderantlyon five sessions of fieldwork
on five of the nine inhabited islands undertaken between 20161 to 2019. It suggests that
globalisation contributes to new urban dynamics and may have homogenising and
demoralising effects on rural food traditions but also facilitates a range of synthetic
experiences between these tendencies.
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Cape Verde, creole,f ood globalisation, tradition.