Carole M. Counihan

A Tortilla Is Like Life

Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative portrait of a small Colorado town based on a decade's worth of food-centered life histories from nineteen of its female residents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780292723108
• ISBN-10: 0292723105
• Artikelnr.: 32727889

Autorenporträt

By Carole M. Counihan

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preface
2. Acknowledgments
3. Chapter 1. "I Did Do Something": Food-Centered Life Histories in Antonito,
Colorado
* Why Antonito
* Methodology: Food-Centered Life Histories and Testimonios
* History of Antonito
* Antonito Today
* Study Participants
* The Ethnographic Process
* Helen Ruybal and Carole Counihan on Ethnography
* Conclusion
4. Chapter 2. "The Stereotypes Have to Be Broken": Identity and Ethnicity in
Antonito
* Antonito: An Insider/Outsider Perspective
* Janice DeHerrera on Antonito
* Language and Education, Spanish and English
* Teddy Madrid on Freedom of Speech
* Ramona Valdez on English and Spanish
* Helen Ruybal on Learning English and Being Smart
* Teddy Madrid on Learning English from the Presbyterians
* Ethnic, Gender, and Religious Identity
* Ramona Valdez on Ethnic Terminology
* Teddy Madrid on the Connection with Spain
* Discrimination and Prejudice
* Helen Ruybal on Discrimination
* Teddy Madrid on Multiple Identities and Axes of Prejudice
* Ramona Valdez on Religious and Anti-Hispanic Prejudice
* Bernadette Vigil on Chicano Consciousness
* Teddy Madrid on Identity, Terminology, and Prejudice
* Conclusion
5. Chapter 3. "Part of This World": Meanings of Land and Water
* Introduction
* History of Land: Acquisition and Loss
* Helen Ruybal's Land Acquisition and Sale
* Land and Its Meanings
* Monica Taylor's Dream of Land, Family, and Place
* Monica Taylor's Perceptions of the Land
* Ramona Valdez on the Meanings of Land
* Teddy Madrid on Land, Home, and Family
* Water in the Southwest
* The Multiple Meanings and Uses of Water
* Teddy Madrid on the Traditional Uses of Water
* Teddy Madrid on Water as a Commodity
* Janice DeHerrera on Water as a Commodity
* Monica Taylor on Water as Life
* Conclusion: Land, Water, Place, and Chicano Cultural Ecology
6. Chapter 4. "Anything You Want Is Going to Come from the Earth": The
Traditional Diet
* The Locally Produced Subsistence Diet
* Ramona Valdez's Food Narrative
* Meat: Domesticated and Wild Animal Foods
* Helen Ruybal on Raising Cattle and Beef
* Teddy Madrid on Fishing, Hunting, and Making Jerky
* Cultivated Foods: Grains, Beans, Vegetables, and Fruits
* Asuncionita Mondragon on Her Grandparents' Garden in La Isla
* Teddy Madrid on Food Production in Las Mesitas
* Bernadette Vigil on Red and Green Chili
* Gathered Plant Foods and Medicines
* Helen Ruybal on the Importance of Piñon in Her Family
* Teddy Madrid on Gathering Wild Foods in Las Mesitas
* Ramona Valdez on Healing Herbs
* Conclusion: Food, Place, and Culture
7. Chapter 5. "We've Got to Provide for the Family": Women, Food, and Work
* Production, Reproduction, and Gender
* Helen Ruybal's Story of Courtship and Marriage
* Gender Expectations and Practices
* Teddy Madrid on Her Family's Flexible Gender Division of Labor
* Monica Taylor on the Strong Women in Her Family
* Helen Ruybal on Gender Relations and Ideals
* Women and Food Work
* Teddy Madrid on Food Preservation
* Monica Taylor on Gardening and Preserving Food
* Janice DeHerrera on Food Preparation
* Earning Money with Food
* Helen Ruybal on Making and Selling Cheese
* Ramona Valdez on Working in the Fields
* Celina Romero on Working as a Cook and Field Hand
* Asuncionita Mondragon on Raising Poultry and Selling Eggs
* Balancing Work and Home
* Teddy Madrid's First Paycheck
* Teddy Madrid on Being a Working Woman
* Janice DeHerrera on Balancing Job and Home
* Conclusion
8. Chapter 6. "It's a Feeling Thing": Cooking and Women's Agency
* Cooking and Agency
* Teddy Madrid's Cooking Adventures
* To Cook or Not to Cook
* Helen Ruybal's and Her Sister's Different Approaches to Cooking
* Janice DeHerrera's Cooking Expectations
* Cooking, Self-Expression, and Emotional Connection
* Janice DeHerrera on Creativity and Cooking
* Janice DeHerrera on Cooking as Emotional Communication
* Cordi Ornelas's Paella
* Learning and Teaching Cooking
* Janice DeHerrera on Learning How to Cook
* Monica Taylor on Learning to Cook and the Family Biscochito Recipe
* Cooking and Gender
* Teddy Madrid on Cooking after Marriage
* Helen Ruybal on Her Husband Cooking
* Monica Taylor on the Chili Wars
* Conclusion
9. Chapter 7. "Meals Are Important, Maybe It's Love": Mexicano Meals and
Family
* Family in Antonito
* Janice DeHerrera on Family Ties versus Individual Ambition
* Teddy Madrid on Her Father's Family Charge
* Mexicano Family Meals
* Martha Mondragon on Family Meals and Television
* Janice DeHerrera on the Importance of the Family Meal
* Meals and Gender Roles
* Janice DeHerrera on Restaurants, Her First Communion, and Family
Gender Power
* Meals, Socialization, and Respect
* Janice DeHerrera on Meals in Her Family of Origin
* Martha Mondragon on Grace before Meals
* Teddy Madrid on Family Meals, Respect, and Socialization
* Asuncionita Mondragon on Teaching Spanish at Family Meals
* Conclusion
10. Chapter 8. "It Was a Give-and-Take": Sharing and Generosity versus Greed
and Envy
* Cooperative Labor Exchanges
* Cordi Ornelas on Work Parties
* Yolanda Salazar on Making and Selling Tamales
* Sharing and Generosity
* Asuncionita Mondragon on Sharing Food with Neighbors
* Helen Ruybal on Sharing Honey and Meat
* Greed and Envy
* Carmen Lopez and Helen Ruybal on Sharing, Cuzco, and Envidia
* Helen Ruybal on Envy
* Envy and Witchcraft
* Helen Ruybal on Witchcraft, Curanderas, and Envy
* Conclusion
11. Chapter 9. "Come out of Your Grief": Death and Commensality
* The Wake
* Cordi Ornelas on Foods at the Wake
* Helen Ruybal on Death, Velorios, and Funerals
* Food Gifts for the Bereaved
* Janice DeHerrera on Food and Death
* Martha Mondragon on Death and Food Sharing
* Farewell Dinners
* Yolanda Salazar on Death, Community, and Commensality
* Helen Ruybal on Farewell Dinners
* Rending and Mending Community
* Helen Ruybal on Different Funeral Traditions
* Teddy Madrid on Presbyterian Funeral Feasts
* Janice DeHerrera on the Meaning of Food at Funerals
* Conclusion
12. Chapter 10. "Give Because It Multiplies": Hunger and Response
* Poverty and Food Insecurity
* Bernadette Vigil on Caring and Hunger
* Janice DeHerrera on Traditions of Sharing Food
* Traditional Foodways, Sharing, and Making Do
* Teddy Madrid on Hunger, Scarcity, and Sharing
* Janice DeHerrera on Making Do with Beans, Tortillas, and Potatoes
* Hunger in School
* Janice DeHerrera on Hunger in the Elementary School
* The Antonito Food Bank
* Teddy Madrid on Presbyterian Support of the Food Bank
* Janice DeHerrera on Hunger, Conscience, and the Food Bank
* Conclusion
13. Chapter 11. Conclusion: "Our People Will Survive"
* The Fourth of July Meal
* Unpacking the Fourth of July Meal
* Explanations for the Antonito Diet
* Toward the Future
14. Appendix 1. Topics in Food-Centered Life Histories
15. Appendix 2. Categories of Analysis
16. Appendix 3. Population of Antonito, Conejos County, and Colorado, 1880-2000
17. Appendix 4. Wild Plants Used for Food or Healing in the Antonito Area
18. Notes
19. Glossary of Spanish Terms
20. Bibliography
21. Index