Christine Folch

Cultural History of Yerba Mate | Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Mergenthaler 426 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Christine Folch (Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University), for her talk on the cultural history of Yerba Mate. From Sacred Brew to Global Commodity: Anthropology, Yerba Mate, and the Changing Geographies of Consumption Brewed from the dried...

🧉4pm

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Pro tip: just put that GirlScouts Thin Mint cookie into your morning coffee.
#noregrets

You are what you eat…what about what you drink? Christine Folch is a cultural anthropologist who studies food. Listen to learn what her book on yerba mate reveals about Latin America, empire, religion, labor and more.

Your next #podcast binge!

"You are what you eat…what about what you drink?" eartheats - with Kayte Young from Indiana Public Media

Listen to the story behind #TheBookofYerbaMate🧉!

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Chicagoland, we’re coming your way.

Save the date: 2.6.2025

#thebookofyerbamate🧉

Snow days are like Saturdays. The kiddo wakes up "on time" when I just wish he'd sleep in!

El restaurante se llama La Pampa y está en la ciudad de Taitung. La dueña es Cristina Mendez.

Un estudiante nuestro de DUKE nos envió este video y estas fotos de un restaurante paraguayo 🇵🇾 en Taiwan 🇹🇼. Tomó un cocido y después comió empanadas para el tereré rupa.

A cultural history of a South American infusion Take your calabash gourd, add the yerba mate until the gourd is two-thirds full, tilt it, pour on hot, but never boiling, water, and add sugar to taste.

From the Times Literary Supplement’s new review of The Book of Yerba Mate🧉:

“[A] fascinating study that opens a window onto the bigger thematic landscape of colonialism, consumption and market capitalism."

www.the-tls.co.uk/culture/food...

The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History by Christine Folch

“How did mate (pronounced “ma-tay”) come to be a cultural institution? And what do its production, trade and modes of consumption tell us about our political economy, past and present?” Read on to discover more in @thetls.bsky.social:
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Wish I hadn’t got rid of my cd collection 2 decades ago…

One thing that brings me a lot of joy is the fact that John Williams’ score for Superman was so iconic that they use it now in every Supe movie, decades later.

Yerba Mate—From South America to the World Football fans during the 2022 FIFA World Cup often saw the Argentine players traveling with dried hollowed-out calabash gourds in their hands, sipping yerba...

"In today’s world, where consumers choose to experiment... perhaps having coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon, #yerbamate [has] a rich history and amazing stories to tell."

STiRCoffeeTea picks up the mate story!

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When you hide Xmas presents so well that you find a new Advent Calendar on December 15.

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Syria is a **major** destination for Argentina's yerba mate🧉

71.2% of Argentina's yerba exports went to #Syria in 2023!

#DYK #yerbamate #Argentina
(Official INDEC--Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos--numbers from Argentina)
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Oh hey. Fun online quiz for nerds.

Wonder what data Pew is gathering from our participation.

Hoy!

Conversatorio virtual: Día Internacional de los Derechos Humanos – Desafíos Actuales

🗓 Fecha: 10 de diciembre de 2024
🕕 Hora Argentina: 15:00 hs

Inscripciones aquí:
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Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️) YouTube video by Avie Sheck

This is beautiful and should break the internet.

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The secret to a moist Thanksgiving turkey is to cook it with duck fat rendered from the leftover Peking ducks (plural) y’all ate the day before.

The canned cranberry sauce is still the undefeated champ of Thanksgiving.

This is the dream.

Pan cubano on the dashboard for size comparison.

La Segunda, the world famous 🇨🇺Cuban bakery, doesn’t play around. No visit to Tampa would be complete without a visit!

Picked up my copy of Forecasts signed by Caroline Schuster, the author herself.

And I got some free sticker swag to boot.

#AAA2024 #graphicethnography

Still undefeated: I play a game every time I visit a southern US city “I bet I can find #yaupon in less than 5 minutes.”

Here it is at the #AAA2024 in Tampa.

Curious about North America’s caffeinated plant and/or its better known South American cousin yerba mate? So was I!

Looking forward to the AAA2024 in Tampa! #anthropology

Been thinking a lot about Polanyi & how double movement given global election results.

I bet if we looked at marriage/pair bonding for elite school graduates who are from lower income backgrounds, we’d find 1) endogamy with graduates of elite schools and 2) a corresponding change in the family’s socioeconomic status such that 3) their kids grow up with a lot more resource$.

Same. A litmus for this (for me) is when I learned how to pronounce “faux pas.”

The right way to drink yerba mate The first time someone from North America tries yerba mate in the traditional style, with a gourd or cattle horn stuffed with smokey green leaves and the metal drinking straw, we often break one of th...

The right way to drink yerba mate🧉

(Is there just one? ;)

“The first time someone from North America tries yerba mate in the traditional style, with a gourd or cattle horn… we often break one of the unwritten rules.”

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How will AI and Large Language Models affect la ciudad letrada, the lettered city?

Re-reading Angel Rama's posthumous work and it seems more timely than ever.

#LLM #Letrados #LatinAmericaasaSourceofTheory