¿El huevo o la gallina ? Completitud y fracción en la comida ritual de los totonacos de la Huasteca

The text describes and analyzes the Totonac people’s rituals where fowl come into play. It is shown the importance of their life cycle for the different culinary uses according to their stages of development, in other words, from the egg to the chicken or rooster. This analysis is based on an organi...

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Main Author: Leopoldo Trejo Barrientos
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Groupe de Recherche Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire 2013-12-01
Series:Les Cahiers ALHIM
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/alhim/4607
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spelling doaj-e037abe364c24324ad4549b59e3222502020-11-24T21:58:30ZspaGroupe de Recherche Amérique Latine Histoire et MémoireLes Cahiers ALHIM1628-67311777-51752013-12-0125¿El huevo o la gallina ? Completitud y fracción en la comida ritual de los totonacos de la HuastecaLeopoldo Trejo BarrientosThe text describes and analyzes the Totonac people’s rituals where fowl come into play. It is shown the importance of their life cycle for the different culinary uses according to their stages of development, in other words, from the egg to the chicken or rooster. This analysis is based on an organizing principle which is fundamental to the religious life of this group: the tension between fraction and wholeness.http://journals.openedition.org/alhim/4607WholenessFractionOfferingMealTotonacs
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¿El huevo o la gallina ? Completitud y fracción en la comida ritual de los totonacos de la Huasteca
Les Cahiers ALHIM
Wholeness
Fraction
Offering
Meal
Totonacs
author_facet Leopoldo Trejo Barrientos
author_sort Leopoldo Trejo Barrientos
title ¿El huevo o la gallina ? Completitud y fracción en la comida ritual de los totonacos de la Huasteca
title_short ¿El huevo o la gallina ? Completitud y fracción en la comida ritual de los totonacos de la Huasteca
title_full ¿El huevo o la gallina ? Completitud y fracción en la comida ritual de los totonacos de la Huasteca
title_fullStr ¿El huevo o la gallina ? Completitud y fracción en la comida ritual de los totonacos de la Huasteca
title_full_unstemmed ¿El huevo o la gallina ? Completitud y fracción en la comida ritual de los totonacos de la Huasteca
title_sort ¿el huevo o la gallina ? completitud y fracción en la comida ritual de los totonacos de la huasteca
publisher Groupe de Recherche Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire
series Les Cahiers ALHIM
issn 1628-6731
1777-5175
publishDate 2013-12-01
description The text describes and analyzes the Totonac people’s rituals where fowl come into play. It is shown the importance of their life cycle for the different culinary uses according to their stages of development, in other words, from the egg to the chicken or rooster. This analysis is based on an organizing principle which is fundamental to the religious life of this group: the tension between fraction and wholeness.
topic Wholeness
Fraction
Offering
Meal
Totonacs
url http://journals.openedition.org/alhim/4607
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