ISBN:
9780857453341
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 311 p.)
Series Statement:
CEDLA Latin America Studies 99
DDC:
394.1250972/65
Keywords:
Food habits Mexico
;
Yucatán (State)
;
Food preferences Mexico
;
Yucatán (State)
;
Cooking, Mexican Mexico
;
Yucatán (State)
;
Food habits - Mexico - Yucatan ( State)
;
Electronic books
;
Yucatán (Mexico : State) Social life and customs
;
Yucatán
;
Regionalkultur
;
Ess- und Trinksitte
;
Regionale Identität
Abstract:
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 dominant central Mexican appetencies and defies the image of Mexican national cuisine as rooted in indigenous traditions. Drawing on post-structural and postcolonial theory, the author proposes that Yucatecan gastronomy - having successfully gained a reputation as distinct and distant from 'Mexican' cuisine - is a bifurcation from regional culinary practices. However, the author warns, this leads to a double, paradoxical situation that divides the nation: while a national cuisine attempts to silence regional cultural diversity, the fissures in the project of a homogeneous regional identity are revealed.
Abstract:
Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in Yucatán -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1The Story of Two Peoples -- Chapter 2Mérida and the Contemporary Foodscape -- Chapter 3The Yucatecan Culinary Field and the Naturalization of Taste -- Chapter 4Cookbooks and the Gastronomic Field -- Chapter 5The Gastronomic Field -- Conclusion: -- Notes -- Glossary of Recipes -- Cookbook References -- References -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in Yucatán; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1The Story of Two Peoples; Chapter 2Mérida and the Contemporary Foodscape; Chapter 3The Yucatecan Culinary Field and the Naturalization of Taste; Chapter 4Cookbooks and the Gastronomic Field; Chapter 5The Gastronomic Field; Conclusion:; Notes; Glossary of Recipes; Cookbook References; References; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references ( p. 282-305) and index. - Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=915719
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