Tousignant, N;
(2020)
Toxic residues of Senegal's peanut economy.
Anthropology Today
, 36
(6)
pp. 5-8.
10.1111/1467-8322.12616.
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Abstract
Exported peanuts have been a key source of state revenue and rural incomes in Senegal since the early 20th century. Senegal has among the world's highest rates of liver cancer incidence. From the 1960s, aflatoxin ‐ the toxic metabolite of fungal strains to which peanut plants are vulnerable ‐ was suspected to be a cause of this cancer. Aflatoxin has since been classified and, in markets that import Senegalese peanuts, regulated as a carcinogen. This article situates aflatoxin toxicity amid the traces of Senegal's century‐old peanut export economy. Examining how peanuts have transformed and inhabit soil, landscapes, buildings, food, bodies and aetiological knowledge, it suggests ways in which aflatoxin as well as uncertainty about its carcinogenicity might be cast as residues of a market‐oriented economy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Toxic residues of Senegal's peanut economy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8322.12616 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12616 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Anthropology Today published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Anthropological Institute. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10116333 |
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