Kitchenspace : : Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico /

Kitchenspace : : Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico / / Maria Elisa Christie.

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Throughout the world, the kitchen is the heart of family and community life. Yet, while everyone has a story to tell about their grandmother's kitchen, the myriad activities that go on in this usually female world are often devalued, and little scholarly attention has been paid to this crucial...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Christie, Maria Elisa,
MitwirkendeR:
Weismantel, Mary,
TeilnehmendeR:
Weismantel, Mary.
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2008
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword. At the Kitchen Table
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Taste of Three Places
  • INTRODUCTION
  • POINTS OF DEPARTURE
  • PART ONE Women of the Circle
  • 1 Xochimilco “Short on Days to Celebrate Our Fiestas"
  • 2 Ocotepec “Not Letting the City Eat This Town Up”
  • 3 Tetecala “Here Mangos Used to Be Like Gold”
  • PART TWO Kitchenspace Narratives
  • 4 Women of Tetecala “You Have to Be Ingenious in the Kitchen!”
  • 5 Women of Xochimilco “It Is Better for the Pots to Awaken Upside Down”
  • 6 Women of Ocotepec “We Used to Have a Lot of Pigs”
  • FOOD FOR THOUGHT
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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