From the Plate to Gastro-Politics

From the Plate to Gastro-Politics
Author: Raúl Matta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2024-01-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031466578

This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of Peruvian cuisine’s shift from a culinary to a political object and the making of Peru as a food nation on the global stage. It focuses on the contexts, processes and protagonists that have endowed the country’s cuisine with new meaning, new coherence and prominence, and with the ability to communicate what was important for Peruvians after decades of political violence and economic decline. This work unfolds central processes of the culinary project ranging from the emergence of gastronomy, to the refiguring of indigenous people as producers, to the use of cultural identity as an authenticating force. From the Plate to Gastro-Politics offers a critical reading of what has been called a “gastronomic revolution”, highlighting the ways in which claims to national unity and social reconciliation smooth over ongoing inequalities. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of food studies, cultural anthropology, heritage studies and Latin American studies.

Amanecer en los Andes

Amanecer en los Andes
Author: Comision de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2002
Genre:
ISBN:

CONTENIDO: Los Andes: Espina Dorsal de América del sur - Las muchas realidades andinas - El patrimonio natural de los Andes - El patrimonio cultural de los Andes - Los Andes en el contexto regional - Los desafíos andinos - Estrategias para el desarrollo sostenible andino.

Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America

Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America
Author: Ernst Halbmayer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2023-06-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1805390074

Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America. The volume shows how people create and reinforce their conditions of being by employing different genres of transgression and by creatively shifting contexts of significance. Local socio-cosmic orders, the interrelation of creative genres (myth, verbal art, song, ritual, and handicrafts), and their changing frames of reference (from communal celebrations to wider political and commercial realms) demonstrate the relational, generative, and processual quality of Amerindian creativity.

Spanish Voices 1

Spanish Voices 1
Author: Matthew Aldrich
Publisher: Lingualism.com
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Spanish Voices is a two-part series designed to provide learners with an opportunity to hear and study authentic Spanish as it is spoken by native speakers from around Latin America and Spain. Unlike the scripted materials read by voice actors used in many course books, Spanish Voices offers dozens of audio essays spoken naturally and off-the-cuff. The materials in the books are designed to help you improve your listening skills and expand your vocabulary in Spanish. Bonus: The MP3s can be downloaded for free from our website, where you can also find interactive flashcards, quizzes, and games, as well as links to further listening and reading practice on the topics presented in the segments (audio essay chapters). Each segment consists of: 1) True or False and Multiple Choice exercises to sharpen your listening skills and increase how much you can understand, whatever your level. 2) Vocabulary and Translation exercises to help you expand your vocabulary and improve your understanding of Spanish collocations and grammar. 3) In-chapter answers to the exercises (no having to flip back and forth to the back of the book). 4) Verbatim transcripts of the audio with side-by-side English translations. 5) Lined sections for note-taking and recording new vocabulary.