Distribution tasks: preparing and sharing out foodstuffs (Zimbabwe)

Distribution tasks: preparing and sharing out foodstuffs (Zimbabwe)
1994. Outdoor cooking on the ground. Tonga village (Zimbabwe) © AEEH

Distribution tasks: preparing and sharing out foodstuffs (Zimbabwe)

From the beginning, our species has cooked on the ground and this still happens in many settlements with subsistence economies. Women prepare and share out (among the family) the limited nutritional production obtained from the resources of biodiversity.

Hearths ore fireplaces are marked by three stones into which they put firewood, gathered by women.