“¿Ella sabe comer? Comida, construcción de la persona y relaciones étnico-sociales en los Andes de Conchucos

In the peasant communities of the Huari province, Ancash, Peru, the food dishes, the main ingredients, and the way of cooking and preparing them, shape a semiotic system that enunciates a social hierarchy based on ethnic categories. What the persons eat and where the food comes from, as well what they offer in collective banquets, convey their ethnic-social identity. Likewise, the ethnic categories are inscribed in the regional space, the place of origin tracks ethnic identity, according to dynamics that also unfold at a national level and that are rooted on histori-cal processes. However, these dynamics can be fluid and mobile, producing spaces for negotiations of new ethno-social positions.