Familia, fiesta y rebelión en la Sierra p’urhépecha: Interpretaciones alternativas de las fogatas de Cherán

Abstract

During an uprising against organised crime in Cherán (Michoacán, México), the village’s women took the streets and set up hundreds of collective kitchens called “fogatas”. According to the specialised literature, these women would have taken as a model the home kitchen, breaking with the separation between the domestic and the public space. In this paper I defend an alternative reading, based on fourteen months of fieldwork. Far from constituting a break, these women organized at that time in the same way they do usually during their traditional fiestas.

Keywords: fiesta, women, p’urhépecha people, kitchen, social movement