Beef as intangible cultural heritage in Botswana: a documentary review

Q1 Social Sciences

Journal of Ethnic Foods Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.1186/s42779-023-00199-y

Delly M. Chatibura

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Abstract

Abstract This article reviews the critical role of cattle and beef production, consumption practices, and symbolic values, among other elements, in instituting Botswana’s beef heritage. The rise of gastronomic tourism and the dearth of literature on Africa’s intangible food heritage has necessitated such a review. Using a document analysis methodology with Google, Google Scholar, and Web of Science Core Collection, the article narrates how the historical, economic, and sociocultural reliance on cattle led to a distinctive intangible beef heritage in Botswana. In conclusion, the article motivates the recognition of seswaa, a beef-related cuisine, as worthy of inscription under UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage and for the continued documentation of food heritage amidst the limited regional studies of such in Africa.

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牛肉作为博茨瓦纳的非物质文化遗产:纪录片回顾

本文回顾了牛和牛肉生产的关键作用，消费实践和象征价值，以及其他因素，在建立博茨瓦纳的牛肉遗产。美食旅游的兴起和非洲非物质食物遗产文献的缺乏使得这样的回顾成为必要。本文采用Google、Google Scholar和Web of Science Core Collection的文献分析方法，叙述了对牛的历史、经济和社会文化依赖如何导致博茨瓦纳独特的非物质牛肉遗产。总之，这篇文章促使人们认识到，与牛肉有关的美食seswaa值得列入联合国教科文组织的非物质文化遗产名录，并在非洲有限的区域研究中继续记录食物遗产。

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Journal of Ethnic Foods Social Sciences-Anthropology

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4.00

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Ethnic Foods provides comprehensive coverage about people’s consumption of food and aims to illuminate the benefits of traditional understanding and knowledge of foods developed over a long time. Food and eating are studied by several disciplines because food has always been more than just nutrients. Food studies have provided better insights into important societal processes involving economics, health, politics, history, and the environment. The journal emphasises research that explores food, gastronomy and eating behaviours that are related to particular geographical contexts and ethnicities. The uniqueness, variety and creativity of food traditions and cultures, as well as the complex interplay of societal and environmental factors can be fully understood by considering perspectives on ethnography, cultural anthropology, population health and well-being, biology, history, ecology and geography. Articles in scope with the journal should cover these areas. The journal welcomes review articles in all those fields, especially those highlighting the multidisciplinary nature of the study of ethnic food.