Abstract

VAZQUEZ DZUL, Gabriel. A Culinary Masculinity? Kekchí Males and Nutritional Knowledge. Alteridades [online]. 2009, vol.19, n.37, pp.119-132. ISSN 2448-850X.

Men and cooking are words that are seldom heard together, especially when in reference to a rural scenario in the South of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. What is referred to here as a "culinary masculinity" emerges from a series of social conditions. The main goal of this article is to render visible the fact that men, in their working and daily lives, are emerging cooks; it also analyzes the conditions under which models of males who go beyond the "exclusive" tasks of their gender emerge and are legitimized.

Keywords : culinary masculinity; gender roles; spatiality; cultural capital and symbolic capital; habitus.