Cooking more than food

In contemporary rural Mali, when it comes to cooking, there is a strict division of labour. Women always make the meals. Each and every day, they transform raw ingredients into cooked fare for themselves and their families. Through their quotidi…

Feeding genders

Juliet comes from Nigeria and has been living in Italy for the past 20 years. “Where I come from, a woman who does not know how to cook cannot get married”, she told me (Mauriello) when we first met during my fieldwork in Naples. Stories told by…

Los perimontun (visiones) en la cultura mapuche (con especial referencia a cómo ocurren entre los pehuenches del Alto Bío-Bío), parte II

En este artículo se presentan relatos de ‘visiones’, con experiencias de personas del pasado y de época comparativamente reciente de la cultura pehuenche, que es la segunda parte de un artículo publicado en el número 31 de la Revista Chilena de Antropo…