Cuando el maiz llora ... El maiz como alimento en un pueblo mayaquiché (Guatemala)

Clara Herrera Tejada

doi:10.3989/revindias.1987.i179.225

When the Corn Weeps ... Corn As Food in a Maya-Quiché Village (Guatemala)

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Clara Herrera Tejada Biblioteca Central del CSIC

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https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.1987.i179.225

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Analyzes corn's importance in the general context of nutrition, as well as its culinary treatment and the symbolic quaIities attributed to it. Also deals with a disruptive element in corn P.rocessing, the substitution of the metate (stone grinder) by the nixtamal mili.

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1987-04-30

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Herrera Tejada, C. (1987). When the Corn Weeps . Corn As Food in a Maya-Quiché Village (Guatemala). Revista De Indias, 47(179), 225–259. https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.1987.i179.225

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Vol. 47 No. 179 (1987)

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