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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Preface to 2005 Edition
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Further Reading
Introduction
Ethical Issues
Sources
Outline of the Argument
1. ’Famine’in English
What is Famine?
The Most Common English Sense
Disaster Tourism
Recent Approaches to Understanding Famines
Who Cries ‘Famine’?
2. Darfur
Landscapes
Impressions of a Disaster Tourist
Nankose Village
Search for the Subsistent Tribal Peasant
3. The History and Concept of Famine
The Ancien Regime
‘A Heap of Ruins’: 1874-1916
Closed Districts: Darfur after 1916
All Manners of Suffering
4. Drought
A Shortage of Rain
‘Sons and Daughters of Drought’
The Zaghawa: Social Transformatin in the Face of Drought
Causes of the Famine
5. Hunger
Fifteen Months of Hunger
Maafi ‘Esh: ‘There is no Food’
Purchases of Grain
Wild Foods
Other Foods
6. Destitution
A Way of Life under Threat
The Farmers of Jebel Si: A ‘Worst Case Scenario’
Livestock
A Case-Study of Mawashei Famine Camp
7. Death
‘Allah Takes from the Rich, and from the Poor’
Methods
Mortality Data
Causes of Death
8. Relief
Perceptions of Outsiders
Indigenous Famine Relief
‘Who is this Reagan?’
How Could it Have Been Done Better?
9. Other Famines
General Conclusions
The Famine in Dar Masalit
Famine in Western Bahr el Ghazal
Coda
References
Index
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