| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 291 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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California studies in food and culture ; 76
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California studies in food and culture ; 76.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"In recent years, Peru has experienced a transformation from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination. Connecting chefs, state agencies, global capital, and Indigenous producers, this "gastronomic revolution" makes powerful claims: food unites Peruvians, dissolves racial antagonisms, and fuels development. Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race critically evaluates these claims and tracks the emergence of Peruvian gastropolitics, understood as a biopolitical and aesthetic set of practices that reinscribe dominant racial and gendered orders. Through ethnographic analysis and critical readings of high-end menus, culinary festivals, guinea pig production, national-branding campaigns, and other elements of Peru's gastropolitical complex, this work explores the intersections of race, species, and capital to reveal links between gastronomy and violence"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Preface : understories -- Introduction : stories of resurgence and coloniality -- Interlude : hauntings -- Gastropolitics and the nation -- Interlude : eating the nation -- Cooking ecosystems : the beautiful coloniality of Virgilio Martínez -- Interlude : "Gastronomy is a display case" -- Staging difference : the gastropolitics of inclusion and recognition -- Interlude : "Apega needs us to look pretty" -- Gastropolitics otherwise : stories in and of the vernacular -- Interlude : of humor and violence -- Guinea pig matters : figuring race, sex, and nation -- Interlude : chemical castration -- Death of a guinea pig -- Epilogue : huacas rising. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Food -- Social aspects -- Peru.
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Food -- Social aspects. |
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Peru. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: García, María Elena. Gastropolitics and the specter of race. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520301894 (DLC) 2020032200 |
| ISBN |
9780520972308 (electronic book) |
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0520972309 (electronic book) |
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9780520301894 (hardcover) |
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0520301897 (hardcover) |
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9780520301900 (paperback) |
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0520301900 (paperback) |
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