This photo was taken on March, 2019 during participant observation.
Emilia Ruvalcaba de la Garza, "Between pain and pleasure", contributed by Emilia Ruvalcaba de la Garza, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 26 August 2019, accessed 22 December 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/between-pain-and-pleasure
Critical Commentary
In most of my conversations with women, there were memories of suffering and expressions of pain when they remembered how they had learned to make tortillas, either at home or when they went to live with their in-laws. However, when we talked about the present, making tortillas in that same kitchen where they first learned to moler was no longer cause for suffering: they all told me that now they enjoy cooking and making their own tortillas.