Using data collected from 105 households in Sonora, Mexico, the author combines detailed ethnographic research with quantitative analyses of income, diet, and nutritional status to examine the dietary patterns of residents who "cook and cope among the cacti." Employing a new analytical concept of "available income" - which can differ greatly from total income and provide valuable insight into why people eat what they do - the work explores a variety of social and cultural factors that affect food expenditure and consumption. Home production of food and the extent to which women are employed outside of the home are just two of the many variables discussed that influence available income and how it is used. But even among groups with similar available incomes, variables of ethnicity, prestige, nutritional knowledge, and the desire for consumer goods come into play.
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The setting for this book is the northwest of Mexico, a desert land of dry mountain ranges and saguaro cacti. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
affecting food consumption patterns, ten food types, active wives, traditional food beliefs, multiple worker households, lower household incomes, holiday combination, most most most most, higher household incomes, high prestige value, positive selectivity, available income, prestige foods, active wife, migrant households, desires for consumer goods, nutritional knowledge, urban born, income migrants, multiple workers, regional cheese, nutritional impact, house improvements, nutritional risk, rural pattern Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arroyo Lindo, United States, Milpas Verdes, Agrarian Reform, Los Cerritos, Arroyo Undo, Mexico City, Ejido Sol, Serving Units, Semana Santa New!
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The setting for this book is the northwest of Mexico, a desert land of dry mountain ranges and saguaro cacti. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
affecting food consumption patterns, ten food types, active wives, traditional food beliefs, multiple worker households, lower household incomes, holiday combination, most most most most, higher household incomes, high prestige value, positive selectivity, available income, prestige foods, active wife, migrant households, desires for consumer goods, nutritional knowledge, urban born, income migrants, multiple workers, regional cheese, nutritional impact, house improvements, nutritional risk, rural pattern Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arroyo Lindo, United States, Milpas Verdes, Agrarian Reform, Los Cerritos, Arroyo Undo, Mexico City, Ejido Sol, Serving Units, Semana Santa New!
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- Modern China (Knowing World History) by S.L. Case in Back Matter
- Mexican Migration to the United States: Origins, Consequences, and Policy Options (Dimensions of United States-Mexican Relations, Volume 3) by Wayne A. Cornelius in Back Matter
- Food Policy (World Bank) by Professor J. Price Gittinger in Back Matter
- Mexico City (Great Cities) by J. Cottrell in Back Matter
- Food Policy: The Responsibility of the United States in the Life and Death Choices by Peter G. Brown in Back Matter
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