SOC2020 Culture and Food Reading Notation Sheet

Note to class:
Terms to research while reading (listed in order of appearance in the text):
Provide a brief definition for each of the terms below in order to maximize your understanding of the article. Some require defining in the context the term(s) appear in the text. Only research the words you don’t already know, or don’t know in the context in which they are used in the reading.

→Remember to include a works cited page at the end of the RNS!!

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1. Emiliano Zapata: Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution

2. disquisition: A long or elaborate essay or discussion on a particular subject

3. vanguard:

4. petite bourgeosie: The lower middle class, including minor businesspeople, tradespeople, and craftworkers

5. proletarianization: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the proletariat

6. obviated: To anticipate and dispose of effectively; render unnecessary

7. dichotomy: Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions

8. cosmopolitan: Pertinent or common to the whole world

9. democratizing: To make democratic

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10. gentrified: To subject to gentrification

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11. centavos:

12. parastatal: Owned or controlled wholly or partly by the government

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13. neoliberal: A political movement beginning in the 1960s that blends traditional liberal concerns for social justice with an emphasis on economic growth.

14. exigencies: The state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action

15. Taylorization: was a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows

16. colonizing: occurs whenever any one or more species populates a new area

17. voyeurism: is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors

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18. anathema: something dedicated, especially dedicated to evil

19. Luddite: were a social movement of British textile artisans in the nineteenth century who protested – often by destroying mechanised looms

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20. Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas: an uprising of the Zapatista army agaianst the exican state of Chiapas on new years eve 1993

21. biodiversity: is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet

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22. intelligentsia: is a social class of people engaged in complex, mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture

23. ubiquitous: is the property of being present everywhere. According to eastern theism, God is present everywhere

24. neoliberal:

25. Zapotecs and Mixtecs:

26. remittances: are transfers of money by foreign workers to their home countries.

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27. Gresham’s Law of farming: Gresham's law is an economic principle that states: "When a government compulsorily overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation into hoards, while the overvalued money will flood into circulation."

28. ersatz: is a German word literally meaning substitute or replacement

29. resonates: To evoke a feeling of shared emotion or belief

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30. antithesis: Direct contrast; opposition

31. Aztlan: In Aztec legend, the original home of the Aztec people, held to have been located in northwest Mexico

32. de facto: In reality or fact; actually

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33. Mazzogiorno:

34. revalorizing:

Questions:

1. Summarize Pilcher’s writing of the Mexican taco, relating his argument to that of the Slow Food Movement. In what ways are they the same and different, why?
Well the Mexican taco starts off in the wee hours of the morning when the women have to wake up and start grinding the corn to make the tortilla. After the long process of making the tortilla is done they then go out to the fields come back late and make the rest. It is a long and slow process,