ABSTRACT

The article offers microfragmentos of reinvention in response to the incursion of capitalist and neocolonial threats. The microfragmentos – small, broken, and irregular fragments that remain incomplete – are a modest local political initiative growing from an ethnographic project among Cañari women and children in the high Ecuadorian Andes. Three microfragmentos on growing, cooking, and eating narrate reinvention around food practices. As the women collectively work their ch’ixi (that is, drawing from the Indigenous side of their subjectivities), practices of growing potatoes, making meals together, and returning to childhood meals transform dimensions of their daily living. These transformations challenge the colonial tragedies they have collectively inherited and, in turn, assist the women to reinvent their lives in the modernised Ecuadorian Andes.

摘要

这篇文章提供了应对资本主义和新殖民主义威胁入侵的重塑的微观片段。这些微碎片——小的、破碎的、不规则的碎片，仍然不完整——是一项温和的地方政治倡议，源自厄瓜多尔安第斯山脉高地卡纳里妇女和儿童的民族志项目。三个关于种植、烹饪和饮食的微片段讲述了围绕食物实践的重塑。当妇女们集体工作时（也就是说，从他们主观性的原住民方面出发）种植土豆、一起做饭和回归童年膳食的做法改变了他们日常生活的维度。这些转变挑战了她们共同继承的殖民悲剧，反过来又帮助妇女在现代化的厄瓜多尔安第斯山脉重塑她们的生活。