Foodways and Resilience under Apocalyptic Conditions

Abstract Food is an active component of social and political process in times of daily plenty and in times of extreme scarcity. Routinized modes of foodways are hard to dislodge, even when resources and broad lifeways are violently disrupted. Ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological examples attest to the improvisational ability of individuals and communities when faced with food shortage. Using illustrations from around the world, I …