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Soup at the Distinguished Table in Mexico City, 1830-1920
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Lucas, Nanosh
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2017, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Spanish/History (dual).
Abstract
This thesis uses soup discourse as a vehicle to explore dimensions of class and hierarchies of taste in Mexican cookbooks and newspapers from 1830-1920. It contrasts soups with classic European roots, such as sopa de pan (bread soup), with New World soups, such as sopa de tortilla (tortilla soup) and chilaquiles (toasted tortillas in a soupy sauce made from chiles). I adopt a multi-disciplinary approach, combining quantitative methods in the digital humanities with qualitative techniques in history and literature. To produce this analysis, I draw from Pierre Bourdieu’s work on distinction and social capital, Max Weber’s ideas about modernization and rationalization, and Charles Tilly’s notions of categorical inequality. Results demonstrate that soup plays a part in a complex drama of inclusion and exclusion as people socially construct themselves in print and culinary practice. Elites attempted to define respectable soups by what ingredients they used, and how they prepared, served, and consumed soup. Yet, at the same time, certain soups seemed to defy hierarchical categorization, and that is where this story begins.
Committee
Amílcar Challú (Committee Co-Chair)
Francisco Cabanillas (Committee Co-Chair)
Amy Robinson (Committee Member)
Timothy Messer-Kruse (Committee Member)
Pages
102 p.
Subject Headings
History
;
Latin American History
Keywords
gente decente
;
sopa de pan
;
chilaquiles
;
sopa de tortilla
;
soup
;
distinction
;
Mexico
;
taste
;
hierarchy
;
class
;
middle class
;
hegemony
;
cookbooks
;
bread
;
broth
;
caldo
;
food
;
cocina
;
newspapers
;
Mexican
;
text mining
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Lucas, N. (2017).
Soup at the Distinguished Table in Mexico City, 1830-1920
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1491551213347469
APA Style (7th edition)
Lucas, Nanosh.
Soup at the Distinguished Table in Mexico City, 1830-1920.
2017. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1491551213347469.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Lucas, Nanosh. "Soup at the Distinguished Table in Mexico City, 1830-1920." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1491551213347469
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Soup at the Distinguished Table in Mexico City, 1830-1920 by Nanosh Lucas is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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