University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 1998 La Comida y las Memorias: Food, Positionality, and the Problematics of Making One's Home Erica Irene Rubine University of Pennsylvania,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations Part of the Ethnic Studies Commons, Folklore Commons, Food Studies Commons, Latin American Languages and Societies Commons, Latina/o Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Place and Environment Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, and the Sociology of Culture Commons Recommended Citation Rubine, Erica Irene, "La Comida y las Memorias: Food, Positionality, and the Problematics of Making One's Home" (1998). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 2139. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2139 This dissertation was completed in Folklore and Folklife. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2139 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. La Comida y las Memorias: Food, Positionality, and the Problematics of Making One's Home Abstract This work explores how people talk about food. My original problem was to find how the idea of a cultural group one may see as comprised of "Mexican Americans" may or may not be complicated by a regional comparison (of rural Hispanos in Colorado and New Mexico and urban Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Philadelphia). The main question I asked myself in this exploration (as well as asked field consultants) was: How does food play a role in the enactment of self-definition? Out of a comparison of vo er 30 rural and urban food narratives gathered during fieldwork in both egionsr emerged the interesting link between food, place, and culture.