Acercamiento antropológico de la alimentación y salud en México
AUTOR(ES)
Bertran Vilà, Miriam
FONTE
Physis: Revista de Saúde Coletiva
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
This paper presents an overview of food in Mexico, particularly in Mexico City, from an anthropological perspective considering sociocultural and economic aspects. It begins with a brief review of anthropological studies on food in Mexico to recognize both the methodological contributions as the major problems of study. Subsequently, are presented some facts of contextualization of the country and city that frame the distinctive food and nutritional data. The following sections propose some explanations of some of the phenomena of contemporary food, where obesity is the main feature in a society of recent consumer access, while facing the cultural ideal of thinness. The data on food in Mexico and related social phenomena account for the complex nature of food and how macro-processes affect people's everyday decisions. The anthropological analysis of food in the Mexican population has been allowed to show the relationship between these processes historically and recently. They are the sign of the usefulness of anthropological methodology to study contemporary food, full of contradictions that have to do with the development of capitalism and consumer society, consumer promotion, and immediate access to it, the medicalization everyday life, ideas about body control, and image as an element of status.
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