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Nemer E. Narchi [1, 2], Alberto B\u00farquez [3], Sarah Trainer [4], Rodrigo F. Renter\u00eda-Valencia [5]<\/p>\n
\u00a0Abstract<\/p>\n
Carne asada<\/span>, the art of grilling and consuming meat, has become a consumptive and culinary practice that cuts across all social spheres in Northern Mexico. Moreover, its explosion in popularity and meaning are directly related to the development of a centralized Mexican state during the twentieth century. Using carne asada<\/span> production and consumption as a lens into larger issues affecting the region we examine the impact that post-European contact pastoralism in the northern arid lands have had on the ecology and sociocultural practices of a geographic area that previously relied on indigenous maize cultivation and highly-structured agricultural sedentarism. Research on the social and ecological effects of carne asada<\/span> has been little studied to date. In this context, we explore the spatial, temporal, and structural dynamics created by the consumption of carne asada<\/span> in a specific area of Northwestern Mexico: Hermosillo, Sonora. We document the ecologic, historic, economic, and political mechanisms that sustain the production of carne asada<\/span> in this area. In doing so, we aim to build a primal analysis for looking at cultural practices under a scope that allows for understanding social and ecological spheres of human existence under a non-dichotomic continuum.<\/p>\n [1] Centro de Estudios en Geograf\u00eda Humana, El Colegio de Michoac\u00e1n, nenarchi@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n [2] Next Generation Sonoran Desert Researchers (N-Gen).<\/p>\n [3] Instituto de Ecologia, Unidad Hermosillo, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, montijo@unam.mx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [4] School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, strainer@asu.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n