Abstract

MARTINEZ-ALMANZA, Laura Enif  and  LIMON-AGUIRRE, Fernando. Dietary practices of indigenous Maya-Chuj: Between “poor, food” and “wealthy food”. Alteridades [online]. 2018, vol.28, n.55, pp.113-124. ISSN 2448-850X.  https://doi.org/10.24275/uam/izt/dcsh/alteridades/2018v28n55/martineza.

This work focuses in the dietary practices that are the result of de Maya-Chuj people’s perception of their socio-natural environment in the Mexican-Guatemalan territory. From the standpoint of anthropology of food and eating, the ethnographic method allowed an approach to social practice, where they experience the construction of knowledge, the expression of shared culture and specificities from their refuge in Mexico. The strains among the bases of understanding an educated way of living and hegemonic impoverishment result in the classifications assigned to food (for the “rich” / “poor”). Considering this difficulties permits to reinforce becoming aspects of the balance between society and environment.

Keywords : anthropology of food and eating; cultural knowledge; socio-environmental environment; Guatemalan refuge; local foods.

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