Food as resistance / Keitlyn Alćantara.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Alcántara, Keitlyn, director.

Heritage Broadcasting Service, issuing body.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Food habits--History--Mexico.

Food habits.

Food preferences--Mexico.

Food preferences.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (27 minutes)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Eugene, Oregon] : Heritage Broadcasting Service, [2020]

System Details:

digital

Summary:

Tlaxcala, Mexico, is a tiny state with a legacy of resistance to imperialism. This documentary reveals archaeology's potential as a key tool for remembering food histories that predate capitalist, colonial ideologies. In the late 1400s, an expansive Aztec Empire encircled Tlaxcala, blocking trade, yet it remained an anomalous land of defiance to that Empire. Paleodiet analyses show how, sustaining their abundant living, the Tlaxcalteca turned to their landscape for sustenance and sovereignty. Five hundred years later, their descendants have joined grassroots food sovereignty movements, looking to the landscape to solve contemporary ills, like diabetes, deprivation and depression. Viewing legacy food recipes as memory-keepers, these stories reclaim their possibilities for better living, present and future-the past pointing to better ways for life in the present. The film also includes the director's self-exploration as a Mexican-American archaeologist.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on May 8, 2025).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.