Food, power, and resistance in the Andes : exploring Quechua verbal and visual narratives / Alison Krögel.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Krögel, Alison, 1978-

Contributor:

• Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Cooking--Social aspects--Peru.
• Food--Social aspects--Peru.
• Food--Symbolic aspects--Peru.
• Quechua Indians--Food--Social aspects.
• Quechua women--Social conditions.
• Women cooks--Peru--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Campus eBookstore Inc - CEI, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Food, Power, and Resistance explores the ways in which artistic representations of food and cooks often convey subversive meanings that resist attempts to locate indigenous Andeans-and Quechua women in particular-at the margins of power. This book offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary study of how food's symbolic and pragmatic meanings influence access to power and the possibility of resistance in the colonial and contemporary Andes.

Contents:

• Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction Food, Narrative, and Symbolic Communication in the Andes; 1 A Brief Cultural History of Andean Staple Foods; 2 The Symbolic Role of Andean Foods in Tahuantinsuyu and Colonial Perú Ritual Expression, Discursive Resistance; 3 Profits, Prestige, and Power in the Andean Market and Chichería; 4 "Las chicheras se defienden" Canny, Creative Cooks in the Visual and Verbal Narratives of José María Arguedas, Martín Chambi, and Claudia Llosa; 5 Maleficent Meals and Conspiring Cooks Culinary Witchcraft in Quechua Oral Narratives
• 6 Conclusion: Globalization, Food Security, and the Quechua Food-LandscapeAppendix; Bibliography; About the Author

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index.
• Print Version Record.

ISBN:

• 1-9787-4205-3
• 979-82-16-27154-3
• 1-283-02934-0
• 9786613029348
• 0-7391-4761-7

OCLC:

707078952