干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): What Happened to Seri Sweets? Dietary Transition Through Culinary Acculturation

Arid

DOI	10.2993/0278-0771-40.3.348
	What Happened to Seri Sweets? Dietary Transition Through Culinary Acculturation
	Narchi, Nemer E.; Marlett, Cathy M.; Hernandez-Santana, Guillermo
通讯作者	Narchi, NE
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY
ISSN	0278-0771
EISSN	2162-4496
出版年	2020
卷号	40 期号:3 页码:348-367
英文摘要	During the decades of 1960-1980, Richard S. Felger and Mary B. Moser researched the botanical knowledge of the Seris (Comcaac), a hunter-gatherer and fishing people living in the arid desert of northwestern Mexico. They recorded and published an extensive body of species-specific data so rich in biological and ethnographic detail that it is possible to reconstruct a quickly eroding, annual dietary cycle; such a comprehensive account is a precious resource to study transitions in the community diet. In this article, we focus on Seri sweets and sweeteners, represented by 16 fruits, four agave species, one perennial halophyte, pollen paste (beebread), and honey. We rely on archival research to explore various data sources, situating ethnobiological questions in a socio-historical context to provide information on the spatial distribution of resources and the community's livelihood, which can be correlated with specific political zeitgeist. We examine how the swift integration of the Seri society into the state-mediated market in the early-mid twentieth century introduced greater use of exogenous sweeteners and displaced local food items, resulting in culinary acculturation that affected the community's health and well-being. Through understanding the process, we aim to present local foods in ways that are comprehensible to younger Seris in order to foster efforts toward food sovereignty in their community.
英文关键词	Seris Sonoran Desert coastal hunter-gatherers local sweets culinary colonialism
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000575752800005
WOS关键词	NATURAL-HISTORY ; FOOD ; BEES ; PREFERENCES ; COMCAAC ; MEXICO
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Biology
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
来源机构	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/326652
作者单位	[Narchi, Nemer E.] Colegio Michoacan, Ctr Estudios Geog Humana, Cerro Nahuatzen 85, La Piedad 59370, Michoacan, Mexico; [Marlett, Cathy M.] SIL Int, 7500 W Camp Wisdom Rd, Dallas, TX 75236 USA; [Hernandez-Santana, Guillermo] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Dept Antropol, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Narchi, Nemer E.,Marlett, Cathy M.,Hernandez-Santana, Guillermo. What Happened to Seri Sweets? Dietary Transition Through Culinary Acculturation[J]. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,2020,40(3):348-367.
APA	Narchi, Nemer E.,Marlett, Cathy M.,&Hernandez-Santana, Guillermo.(2020).What Happened to Seri Sweets? Dietary Transition Through Culinary Acculturation.JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY,40(3),348-367.
MLA	Narchi, Nemer E.,et al."What Happened to Seri Sweets? Dietary Transition Through Culinary Acculturation".JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY 40.3(2020):348-367.