Abstract

SIRONI, Osvaldo  and  MAFFERRA, Luis Eduardo. Food in South Andean Mining Contexts: Dialogues between Material Culture and Documentary Evidence (19th and 20th centuries). Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2020, vol.56, n.1, pp.183-214. ISSN 0486-6525.  https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472x.1050.

This article analyzes social food practices in mining contexts of silver, gold and bituminous shales of the republican period (mid 19 th to early 20 th century) in the precordillera of Mendoza (Argentina). The objective is to reconstruct the operational food chain of the mining population and the space-time distribution scale of their artifact sets, based on the integration of six lines of evidence: documentary sources, ceramics, metallic and glass elements, as well as archaeozoological and botanical remains. The results suggest that the phases of the operational food chain are under or overrepresented with some differences between the two targeted sites. With respect to the distribution scales, the sites were inserted in circulation circuits of regional products mainly and, to a lesser extent, local and global ones.

Keywords : anthropology of food; mining sites; operational chain; distribution scale.

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