oThe strength of this book lies in its brilliant demonstration that local contexts of practical life and quotidian experienceNunderstood in terms of embodiment, agency, and nonDdiscursive formNmay constitute grounds for understanding such global issues as epidemic disease, commoditization, symbolic capital, and the discourse of nationalism.ONMichael Jackson, Indiana University oThis is an important ethnography, beautifully written and tightly conceived. It offers stunning ethnographic material and important theoretic reframings of exchange practices. Weiss establishes, the value of a person-centered, historically situated African ethnography and sets a new standard for clarity of exposition of complex contemporary issues in these terms.ONDebbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College

• Acknowledgments vii 1. An Orientation to the Study 1 I. Making the World 27 2. "Evil Flee, Goodness Come In": Creating and Securing Domesticity 29 3. Heartplaces and Households: Haya Culinary Practices 51 4. Mealtime: Providing and Presenting a Meal 80 5. A Moral Gastronomy: Value and Action in the Experience of Food 127 II. The World Unmade 151 6. Plastic Teeth Extraction: An Iconography of Gastrosexual Affliction 155 7. "Buying Her Grave": Money, Movement, and AIDS 179 8. Electric Vampires: From Embodied Commodities to Commoditized Bodies 202 9. Conclusions: The Enchantment of the Disenchanted World 220 Notes 227 References 239 Index 247

oThe strength of this book lies in its brilliant demonstration that local contexts of practical life and quotidian experienceNunderstood in terms of embodiment, agency, and nonDdiscursive formNmay constitute grounds for understanding such global issues as epidemic disease, commoditization, symbolic capital, and the discourse of nationalism.ONMichael Jackson, Indiana University oThis is an important ethnography, beautifully written and tightly conceived. It offers stunning ethnographic material and important theoretic reframings of exchange practices. Weiss establishes, the value of a person-centered, historically situated African ethnography and sets a new standard for clarity of exposition of complex contemporary issues in these terms.ONDebbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College

• Acknowledgments vii 1. An Orientation to the Study 1 I. Making the World 27 2. "Evil Flee, Goodness Come In": Creating and Securing Domesticity 29 3. Heartplaces and Households: Haya Culinary Practices 51 4. Mealtime: Providing and Presenting a Meal 80 5. A Moral Gastronomy: Value and Action in the Experience of Food 127 II. The World Unmade 151 6. Plastic Teeth Extraction: An Iconography of Gastrosexual Affliction 155 7. "Buying Her Grave": Money, Movement, and AIDS 179 8. Electric Vampires: From Embodied Commodities to Commoditized Bodies 202 9. Conclusions: The Enchantment of the Disenchanted World 220 Notes 227 References 239 Index 247

oThe strength of this book lies in its brilliant demonstration that local contexts of practical life and quotidian experienceNunderstood in terms of embodiment, agency, and nonDdiscursive formNmay constitute grounds for understanding such global issues as epidemic disease, commoditization, symbolic capital, and the discourse of nationalism.ONMichael Jackson, Indiana University oThis is an important ethnography, beautifully written and tightly conceived. It offers stunning ethnographic material and important theoretic reframings of exchange practices. Weiss establishes, the value of a person-centered, historically situated African ethnography and sets a new standard for clarity of exposition of complex contemporary issues in these terms.ONDebbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College

• Acknowledgments vii 1. An Orientation to the Study 1 I. Making the World 27 2. "Evil Flee, Goodness Come In": Creating and Securing Domesticity 29 3. Heartplaces and Households: Haya Culinary Practices 51 4. Mealtime: Providing and Presenting a Meal 80 5. A Moral Gastronomy: Value and Action in the Experience of Food 127 II. The World Unmade 151 6. Plastic Teeth Extraction: An Iconography of Gastrosexual Affliction 155 7. "Buying Her Grave": Money, Movement, and AIDS 179 8. Electric Vampires: From Embodied Commodities to Commoditized Bodies 202 9. Conclusions: The Enchantment of the Disenchanted World 220 Notes 227 References 239 Index 247