Kitchenspace : women, fiestas, and everyday life in central Mexico / Maria Elisa Christie ; foreword by Mary Weismantel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christie, Maria Elisa.

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fasts and feasts--Mexico.

Fasts and feasts.

Kitchens--Mexico.

Kitchens.

Social networks--Mexico.

Social networks.

Women--Mexico--Social conditions.

Women.

Mexico--Social life and customs.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 308 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A pioneering ethnography of a crucial, yet often undervalued, site of family and community building—the kitchen.

Contents:

Foreword: At the kitchen table / Mary Weismantel

Preface

Acknowledgments

A taste of three places

Introduction

Points of departure

Women of the circle

Xochimilco: "Short on days to celebrate our fiestas"

Ocotepec: "Not letting the city eat this town up"

Tetecala: "Here mangos used to be like gold"

Kitchenspace narratives

Women of Tetecala: "You have to be ingenious in the kitchen!"

Women of Xochimilco: "It is better for the pots to awaken upside down"

Women of Ocotepec: "We used to have a lot of pigs"

Food for thought

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79403-7

OCLC:

309886285