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Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By Jessica Barnes, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 296 pp.
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A protestor waving a loaf of bread. A man in a bakery purchasing subsidized loaves for his family. A woman shaping dough in front of an oven. Connecting these disparate domains is bread, which nearly all Egyptians eat at nearly every meal. Starting with these three vignettes, in Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt Jessica Barnes examines the centrality of bread in Egyptian life by tracing the path from field to bureaucrat's desk to table. In bringing together national security with the sense of satisfaction a housewife derives from sacks of grain stored in her living room, Barnes seeks to explain “how staple security infuses everyday life.”
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2024
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Connor, K.G. (2024), Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes, Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 296 pp.. Med. Anthropol. Q., 38: 119-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12829
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