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The tomato paste tin can: An African journey (Burkina Faso)
Journal of Material Culture ( IF 1.269 ) Pub Date : 2019-02-14 , DOI: 10.1177/1359183518820370
Muriel Champy 1
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In Burkina Faso, where imported goods now constitute the basic ingredients of the daily urban diet, tomato paste seems to epitomize the country’s position at the end of the globalized food chain. With the expansion of this manufactured comestible, the empty tomato paste tin can also has gradually replaced previously used calabashes and plastic bowls to become the sole recipient used by child beggars for receiving food donations. As such, it has become the primary graphic symbol for child begging, in particular, and for African underdevelopment in general. But this iconic status should not eclipse the fact that most Burkinabe households use this same can for a large array of daily tasks. This article patiently follows ‘the can’ through the variety of its uses, from tomato paste container to water recipient, measuring instrument, begging device, seat or cooking pot, thus offering a contribution to the social study of objects. It reveals that street children and Koranic students are both marginalized by using it, and also included in the various informal networks it ties together. Usually framed as an emblem of ‘underdevelopment’ and ‘poverty’, the can becomes a symbol of the transformations of the Burkinabe economy and of the rapid changes of consumption patterns the country is experiencing.

中文翻译:

番茄酱罐头:非洲之旅(布基纳法索)

在布基纳法索,进口商品现已成为城市日常饮食的基本成分,番茄酱似乎是该国在全球化食物链末端的地位的缩影。随着这种人造食品的发展,空的番茄酱锡罐也逐渐取代了以前使用的葫芦和塑料碗,成为儿童乞g用来接收食物捐赠的唯一接收者。因此,它已经成为乞讨儿童的主要图形符号,尤其是对于非洲欠发达地区。但是,这种标志性的地位并不能掩盖大多数布基纳法索家庭在许多日常任务中都使用这种罐头这一事实。本文耐心地遵循“罐头”的各种用途,从番茄酱容器到受水器,测量仪器,乞讨装置,座或炊具,从而为对象的社会研究做出了贡献。它揭示了流浪儿童和可兰经学生都被使用而被边缘化,并且也被包括在它所联系的各种非正式网络中。通常以“欠发达”和“贫穷”的象征为框架,罐头成为布基纳法索经济转型和该国正在经历的消费模式迅速变化的象征。
更新日期:2019-02-14
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