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Author Ayora Díaz, Steffan Igor, author.

Title Foodscapes, foodfields, and identities in Yucatán / Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series CEDLA Latin America Studies ; 99
Latin America studies ; 99.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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 d.
Contents Introduction : Food and the post-colonial politics of identity -- The story of two peoples : Mexican and Yucatecan peoplehood -- Mérida and the contemporary foodscape -- The Yucatecan culinary field and the naturalization of taste -- Cookbooks and the gastronomic field : from minor to major codes (and back) -- The gastronomic field : restaurants and the institutionalization of Yucatecan gastronomy -- Conclusion : Food and identities in post-national times.
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Subject Food habits -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Food habits.
Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Food preferences -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Food preferences.
Cooking, Mexican.
Cooking, Mexican.
Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Social life and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE/Customs & Traditions.
COOKING/Regional & Ethnic/Mexican.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Manners and customs.
Ess- und Trinksitte.
Kochen.
Ernährung.
Soziale Identität.
Yucatán.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ayora-Diaz, Steffan Igor. Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in Yucatán. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012 9780857452207
ISBN 9780857453341 (electronic book)
0857453343 (electronic book)
1280496525
9781280496523
0857452207
9780857452207
Music No. EB00825489 Recorded Books