Open AccessEtnografía de los procesos alimentarios y el poder en regiones indígenas de Chiapas
Author(s) -
Marina Alonso Bolaños,
Javier Gutiérrez Sánchez,
Fermín Ledesma Domínguez,
Rosalba Tadeo Castro
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
estudios de cultura maya
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.226
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2448-5179
pISSN - 0185-2574
DOI - 10.19130/iifl.ecm.2020.56.2.0010
Subject(s) - ethnography , indigenous , welfare economics , consumption (sociology) , context (archaeology) , sociology , politics , power (physics) , social inequality , inequality , food consumption , diversity (politics) , ethnology , geography , humanities , gender studies , political science , anthropology , social science , economics , ecology , biology , mathematical analysis , philosophy , physics , mathematics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , agricultural economics , law
The objective of this article is to contribute to the ethnographic knowledge of eating habits in Tsotsil, Tseltal, Zoque and Ch’ol regions of Chiapas in the context of cultural diversity and power relationships. It shows that food as a dynamic social fact is a research field in which different scales and levels of social and political power are expressed. Likewise, inequalities between State, market system, national society and Indigenous people are manifested in the eating habits, as well as among particular regional and local contexts. The anthropological category of “control” is proposed in order to explain the relations between social experience of production and consumption of food.