La alimentación de los mayores. perspectiva de cambios en la producción y consumo en comunidades de Saraguro, El Tambo y Cuenca, 2016

Abstract

From a physical perspective, the Andes has been a challenge for the people living there, who have filled it with memories. In other words, it’s a space that contains footprints of older cultures and practical knowledge of the present, resulting in a long process in construction, resistance and adaptation to the unending colonialist experience. It is evident today that in the septentrional Andes, community and family experience in the management of contiguous bio-regions is prevalent. It has facilitated the access to diverse food products that constitute the base of their diets, a societal and symbolic network that gives them a sense of belonging. Through the eight stories built on the lives of commoners from the towns of Saraguro, Cañari and the mestizos inhabitants of Cuenca located to the south Ecuadorian sierra, strategies will be shown on how the management of space is used. It’s relationship to the food production by a generation born during the first half of the twentieth century, the changes that have affected the descendants throughout that century and all coinciding with a time of a political state and societal modernization