In this article I explain how women are re-elaborating certain practices and social spaces tied to notions of "la costumbre"-custom-, as a way to gain access to communitarian prestige and recognition in light of changes to social, ritual and political organization in a municipality from the Oaxacan Mixtec region. Taking into account an old feminist anthropology concern about the gender system as a prestige system, I question the rigidity of the power and prestige structure conferred upon gender relationships within cargo systems and I show the relevance of what are considered to be "domestic" activities in the construction of intimate communitarian spaces that women have created via the reproduction of a relevant rituality in the construction of contemporary communities. I observed how women use the concept of "la costumbre" to claim a type of symbolic capital that helped them prepare for and participate in other communitarian decision-making spaces, such as village assemblies.
Este texto analiza la patrimonialización de alimentos como un proceso social que produce indigeneidad a través del activismo alimentario. Expone el caso del Grupo Enlace para la Promoción del Amaranto en México, un actor en la discusión sobre soberanía alimentaria, que impulsa la producción, la transformación y el consumo de este grano. Ilustra sus acciones, prácticas organizativas y las narrativas que dotaron al amaranto de una serie de valores asociados a su lugar en la dieta mesoamericana, que reactualizados en clave de alimento indígena y ancestral posibilitaron su nombramiento como patrimonio intangible de la Ciudad de México. Se muestra la relevancia de este tipo de activismo para la producción de indigeneidad en el ámbito del patrimonio alimentario.
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