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En esta obra se exploran las reconfiguraciones que las cultura alimentarias y sus cocinas presentan en diversos momentos históricos a partir de la integración de once investigaciones enriquecidas por la historia, la antropologia y la agroomía.
Arequipa, Peru's second largest city, has the most intense regional culture in the central Andes. Arequipeños fiercely conceive of themselves as exceptional and distinctive, yet also broadly representative of the nation's overall hybrid nature—a blending of coast (modern, "white") and sierra (traditional, "indigenous"). The Independent Republic of Arequipa investigates why and how this regional identity developed in a boom of cultural production after the War of the Pacific (1879–1884) through the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on decades of ethnographic fieldwork, Thomas F. Love offers the first anthropological history of southwestern Peru's distinctive regional culture. He examines bo...
The past decade has seen major political upheaval in Latin America--from Brazil to Chile to Venezuela to Bolivia--but to understand what happened, ask first where your quinoa and lithium batteries came from... The 21st century began optimistically in Latin America. Left-leaning leaders armed with programs to reduce poverty and reclaim national wealth were seeing results—but as the aughts gave way to the teens, they began to fall like dominos. Where did the dreams of this "pink tide" go? Look no further than the original culprits of Latin American disenfranchisement: resource-rich land and unscrupulous extraction. Recounting the story commodity by commodity, Andy Robinson reveals what oxen ...
Eleven essays that build interdisciplinary bridges between law, biology and ecology. Book focuses on three general issues: debate over definition of and discussion about "bio-cultural heritage;" relationship between bio-culture and food in cultural groups; and integration of bio-cultural knowledge, institutional protection of heritage, and effort to preserve indigenous and peasant economies.