From the plate to gastro-politics : unravelling the boom of Peruvian cuisine / Ral︢ ︣Matta.

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From the plate to gastro-politics : unravelling the boom of Peruvian cuisine / Ral︢ ︣Matta.

9783031466571 (electronic bk.)
3031466578 (electronic bk.)
9783031466564
303146656X

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

English

1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-031-46657-1 doi

TX360.P4

363.8/5610985

This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of Peruvian cuisine's shift from a culinary to a political object and the making of Peru as a food nation on the global stage. It focuses on the contexts, processes and protagonists that have endowed the country's cuisine with new meaning, coherence and prominence, and with the ability to communicate what is important for Peruvians after decades of political violence and economic decline. This work uncovers the central processes of the culinary project ranging from the emergence of gastronomy, to the refiguring of indigenous people as producers, and the use of cultural identity as an authenticating force. From the Plate to Gastro-Politics offers a critical reading of what has been called a "gastronomic revolution", highlighting the ways in which claims to national unity and social reconciliation smooth over ongoing inequalities. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of food studies, cultural anthropology, heritage studies and Latin American studies. Ral︢ ︣Matta is research associate at the Institut de Recherche pour le Dv̌eloppement (UMR 208 PALOC), France. His research sits at the intersection of the anthropology of food, heritage and cultural studies, and the environmental humanities.

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Food and identity in a globalising world.

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