A Tortilla Is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado Native American development

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A Tortilla Is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado Native American developmentLocated in the southern San Luis Valley of Colorado, the remote and relatively unknown town of Antonito is home to an overwhelmingly Hispanic population struggling not only to exist in an economically depressed and politically marginalized area, but also to preserve their culture and their lifeways. Between 1996 and 2006, anthropologist Carole Counihan collected food centered life histories from nineteen MexicanasHispanic American womenwho had long