Food, Gender Free

Author: Mary J. Weismantel
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1577660293

Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes

We are what we eat: our food defines us as individual women and men, as families and communities, and as members of our race, our class, and our nation. Download Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In this book, Mary Weismantel uses four different facets of the social life of food--diet, cuisine, discourse, and practice--to draw a richly detailed and compelling portrait of one South American community during the 1980s. The foods eaten in Zumbagua, an indigenous parish of highland Ecuador, are key to understanding what holds this distinctive people together in the face of tremendous economic and cultural challenges, as well as what divides them. The detailed discussion of diet is surprisingly revealing. Ancient histories emerge from the origins of staple crops like barley and potatoes, Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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