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The Cultural Life of Coca and The Coca War While doing these readings I concentrated my thinking on ideas of criminalization and the vilification of Indigenous practices. The first article “The Cultural Life of Coca” described the practices surrounding coca production, distribution, and consumption. It was interesting to learn about the cultivation process. I wasContinue reading “Week 5: Drugs LAST 201”
I am going to apologize in before hand for this blog post turning into a rant. Although I found the readings by Allison Spedding on the Bolivian coca farming really interesting, the only thought that really came to me was how I despise the United States. I cannot understand that because they had failed in […]
The following two articles were both forms of internal displeasure over the situation. And, a series of reactions from the protagonists. The first article I will discuss is the Cooking Lessons piece where the main character is a female and newly married wife. Her position in the situation speaks and reads melancholic. Throughout the story […]
Questions about food and drink
I found Rosario Castellanos’s “Cooking Lesson” fascinating, since I had never read it previously. The theme of gender imbalance in Mexico runs throughout the story, and this is something I’ve always been interested in myself. In the beginning of the story, Castellanos writes some academic ruminations about hospitals, from which the narrator breaks by askingContinue reading “Cooking, Sacraments, and Cuauhtémoc in Castellanos’s “Cooking Lesson””
This week’s reading offers a very peculiar and almost interpersonal approach to the dynamic of culture as food. Castellanos writes about a woman who is trapped within her kitchen without the skills or resources to succeed in preparing her husband good, quality meals. The strangest thing in this short story is the notion that from […]
As someone who’s favourite novel became ‘Gone Girl’ at too young of an age, I loved this piece. Someone please get Amy Dunne on this. This piece details the dichotomy between the expectations of a ‘wife’ and the humanity of a woman. Rosario confirms that a woman’s place is in the kitchen and that she […]
My expectations of this week were quite different from what it turned out to be. Food is a crucial part of probably any and every culture in the world and thus it has many functions and meanings. However, the ones presented by this weeks readings were somewhat unexpected to me. I found the Zapatista corn […]
