Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in the Yucatï¿½n

Name: Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in the Yucatï¿½n
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ISBN: 9780857452207

ISBN-10: 0857452207

ISBN-13: 9780857452207

Edition: 2011

Authors: Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz

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The state of Yucatán has its own distinct culinary tradition, and local people are constantly thinking and talking about food. They use it as a vehicle for social relations but also to distinguish themselves from Mexicans. This book examines the politics surrounding regional cuisine, as the author argues that Yucatecan gastronomy has been created and promoted in an effort to affirm the identity of a regional people and to oppose the hegemonic force of central Mexican cultural icons and forms. In particular, Yucatecan gastronomy counters the homogenizing drive of a national cuisine based on dominant central Mexican appetencies and defies the image of Mexican national cuisine as rooted in…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 332
Size: 6.23" wide x 9.26" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz is Professor of Anthropology at the Universidad Autï¿½noma de Yucatï¿½n (UADY). He has done fieldwork in Sardinia (Italy), and in Chiapas and Yucatï¿½n (Mexico), and has published on local cultural practices (medicine, gastronomy, and identities) in the global, postcolonial, and modern context.