Alison Krögel Food, Power, and Resistance sku-21600757

Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes, by Alison Krögel, is a paperback in Latin American History Books (sku-21600757). It examines how food and cooking relate to power, resistance, economic self-reliance, creative expression and cultural identity among Quechua women.

The book discusses the meanings of Andean foods and analyzes poetry, prose and Quechua oral narratives that the author collected and translated during years of fieldwork in the southern Peruvian Andes. It also considers colonial and contemporary representations of food in novels, historical chronicles, testimonies, photography, painting and film.

These works depict Quechua cooks using food preparation and distribution to resist patriarchal efforts to silence them. The book is intended for scholars of Andean Studies and Food Studies and students of Anthropology and Latin American Studies.