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GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW
Volume 94, Issue 3, Pages 368-390Publisher
AMER GEOGRAPHICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2004.tb00178.x
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fiesta; gendered space; house-lot garden; Mexico; rural-urban interface; sense of place
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The house-lot garden in central Mexico is gendered space where changing cultural identities are negotiated, re-created, and celebrated as tradition is continually redefined. No clear boundary separates the kitchen from the house-lot garden or the private space of the household from the semipublic space of the community. During collective food preparation for religious fiestas, gendered reciprocity networks strengthen community relations and foster alliances between traditional neighborhoods and between communities in the region. At the intersection of everyday life and fiestas, food-preparation spaces, or kitchenspaces, in the house-lot garden are fertile areas in which to explore the cultural reproduction of nature-society relations. They are vital to understanding gender, place, and culture in this region and represent people's symbolic connection with the land in increasingly urban contexts. This article analyzes the sense of place that Mexican women derive from their house-lot gardens.
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