A Tortilla Is Like Life : : Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado / / Carole M. Counihan.

Located in the southern San Luis Valley of Colorado, the remote and relatively unknown town of Antonito is home to an overwhelmingly Hispanic population struggling not only to exist in an economically depressed and politically marginalized area, but also to preserve their culture and their lifeways....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2009
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1 “I Did Do Something”: Food-Centered Life Histories in Antonito, Colorado
  • 2. “The Stereotypes Have to Be Broken”
  • 3. “Part of This World”
  • 4. “Anything You Want Is Going to Come from the Earth”
  • 5. “We’ve Got to Provide for the Family”
  • 6. “It’s a Feeling Thing”
  • 7. “Meals Are Important, Maybe It’s Love”
  • 8. “It Was a Give-and-Take”
  • 9. “Come Out of Your Grief”
  • 10. “Give Because It Multiplies”
  • 11. Conclusion
  • APPENDIX 1
  • APPENDIX 2
  • APPENDIX 3
  • APPENDIX 4
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Spanish Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index