ABSTRACT This paper discusses the cultivation, harvesting and consumption of anchote and examines the social and environmental factors that frame the practice. Anchote, an indigenous tuber crop propagated by seed, is primarily cultivated for its edible tubers. In addition to forming part of the dietary staple of the Wallaga Oromo, the tuber is central to the culture and identity of the people. The tuber is anthropomorphized and often referred to as a relative of fertile women. Indeed, the tuber, women and pottery form a nexus of metaphorical meaning integral to Oromo cosmology. Moreover, cultivation of the tuber is framed by the daily interaction between farmers. The perceived agency of farmland is key to understanding how the Wallaga Oromo struggle to retain, modify or alter anchote culture in a swiftly changing world. Anchote is steamed in a clay pot and its processing results in formation of diagnostic use-alteration. This use-alteration may help to envisage antiquity of tuber production and consumption in the Wallaga region of the southwestern Ethiopian highlands.

中文翻译：

---

Anchote (Coccinia abyssinica)：在埃塞俄比亚西南部瓦拉加地区被视为女性亲属的块茎

摘要 本文讨论了凤尾鱼的种植、收获和消费，并考察了构成这种做法的社会和环境因素。Anchote 是一种通过种子繁殖的本土块茎作物，主要种植可食用块茎。除了构成 Wallaga Oromo 主食的一部分外，块茎还是人们文化和身份的核心。块茎被拟人化，通常被称为可育女性的亲戚。事实上，块茎、女人和陶器形成了奥罗莫宇宙学不可或缺的隐喻意义的联系。此外，块茎的种植是由农民之间的日常互动构成的。对农田的感知机构是理解瓦拉加奥罗莫人如何在瞬息万变的世界中努力保留、修改或改变锚文化的关键。Anchote 在陶罐中蒸熟，其加工导致诊断性用途改变的形成。这种用途的改变可能有助于设想埃塞俄比亚西南部高地瓦拉加地区的古代块茎生产和消费。