Kitchenspace women, fiestas, and everyday life in central Mexico / [electronic resource] :
Maria Elisa Christie ; foreword by Mary Weismantel.
- 1st ed.
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
- xxiv, 308 p. : ill., map.
- 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. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Fasts and feasts--Mexico. Kitchens--Mexico. Social networks--Mexico. Women--Social conditions.--Mexico