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Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes - Exploring Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives

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Informationen zum Autor By Alison Krögel Klappentext Food, Power, and Resistance explores the ways in which artistic representations of food and cooks often convey subversive meanings that resist attempts to locate indigenous Andeans-and Quechua women in particular-at the margins of power. This book offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary study of how food's symbolic and pragmatic meanings influence access to power and the possibility of resistance in the colonial and contemporary Andes. Zusammenfassung Food! Power! and Resistance explores the ways in which artistic representations of food and cooks often convey subversive meanings that resist attempts to locate indigenous Andeans-and Quechua women in particular-at the margins of power. This book offers a dynamic! interdisciplinary study of how food's symbolic and pragmatic meanings influence access to power and the possibility of resistance in the colonial and contemporary Andes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 1. Introduction: Food, Narrative, and Symbolic Communication in the Andes Chapter 2 2. A Brief Cultural History of Andean Staple Foods Chapter 3 3. The Symbolic Role of Andean Foods in Tahuantinsuyu and Colonial Perú: Ritual Expression, Discursive Resistance Chapter 4 4. Profits, Prestige, and Power in the Andean Market and Chichería Chapter 5 5. "Las chicheras se defienden": Canny, Creative Cooks in the Visual and Verbal Narratives of José María Arguedas, Martín Chambi, and Claudia Llosa Chapter 6 6. Maleficent Meals and Conspiring Cooks: Culinary Witchcraft in Quechua Oral Narratives Chapter 7 7. Conclusion: Globalization, Food-Security, and the Quechua Food-landscape

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Authors Alison Krogel, Alison Krögel
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 19.09.2012
 
EAN 9780739147603
ISBN 978-0-7391-4760-3
No. of pages 241
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Food & society, Social and cultural anthropology, Andes, Cultural studies: food and society, Andes mountains

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