Predictable Pleasures - Food and the Pursuit of Balance in Rural Yucatan

Informationen zum Autor Lauren A. Wynne is an assistant professor of anthropology at Ursinus College.   Klappentext Wynne examines the centrality of food in rural Yucatán and how residents practice care, as exercised through food, to negotiate anxieties, achieve desired bodily and social status, and maintain valued cultural forms.    Zusammenfassung Wynne examines the centrality of food in rural Yucatán and how residents practice care, as exercised through food, to negotiate anxieties, achieve desired bodily and social status, and maintain valued cultural forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Force with Which We Live 2. Giving Life to Ourselves 3. If It Tastes Good 4. So That We Won’t Die 5. Put a Little Salt Conclusion Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Lauren A Wynne, Lauren A. Wynne
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781496201317
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0131-7
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: At Table
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore