Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Christie, Maria Elisa.

Title Kitchenspace [electronic resource] : women, fiestas, and everyday life in central Mexico / Maria Elisa Christie ; foreword by Mary Weismantel.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxiv, 308 p. : ill., map.
Series 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Fasts and feasts -- Mexico.
Kitchens -- Mexico.
Social networks -- Mexico.
Women -- Mexico -- Social conditions.
Mexico -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780292717947 (alk. paper)
0292717946 (alk. paper)

 
    
Available items only