THE TRADITIONAL ANDEAN FOOD AND THE CAPITALIST MARKET

Abstract

This work tries to show first that food is not a mere biological fact of consumption of macro and micronutrients that allow us to obtain energy to live but is a much more complex phenomenon that crosses the entire sociocultural structure of regions and territories. In this way, food in each town has great meaning, as a resident of Coranzulí said, “with food we feed God and Pachamama.” The capitalist system and the food industry have taken hold of this significance and perception that each community has developed throughout its history, which through the processes of globalization and the State as functional to this dominant ideological apparatus seek its dominance. We are going to see how, through the subtle imposition of the consumption of industrialized foods, the destructuring of the production and reproduction of the life of the Coranzulí shepherds and society in general is sought.