Gender, Intersectionality and Disease

the Consumption of Bat Meat in the Mount Cameroon Region

Authors

  • Efuet Simon Akem University of Buea Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27904

Keywords:

bushmeat, West Africa, Central Africa, ebola, demographics, public health, intersectonality, food and gender, bats, ethnography, gender roles, trapping

Abstract

This paper based on fieldwork and quantitative analysis highlights potential links between human–bat activities and the established lines of Ebola disease using an intersectional approach. The main research questions underlying the paper are i) Why are Africans (especially West and Central) hunting and eating bush meat despite concerns about Ebola? ii) How do the local people around Mount Cameroon go about hunting bat? iii) What is the place of gender in these activities as powered by the theory of intersectionality?

Author Biography

  • Efuet Simon Akem, University of Buea

    Efuet Simon Akem is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Buea in Cameroon. He received his doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Yaounde. He has done extensive fieldwork, particularly in the Mount Cameroon region.

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Published

2019-10-01

Issue

PPC 115 (2019)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Akem, Efuet Simon. 2019. “Gender, Intersectionality and Disease: The Consumption of Bat Meat in the Mount Cameroon Region”. Petits Propos Culinaires, October, 56-72. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27904.