An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the SunIn An Ethnography of Hunger Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence, politics, and rural development. Writing against stereotypical Western media images of spectacular famine in Africa, she examines how people live with rather than die from hunger. Through tracing the seasonal cycles of drought, plenty, and suffering and the political cycles of elections, development, and