Abstract

APAZA TICONA, Jorge et al. Education and nutrition in the aymara communities of Puno. Comuni@cción [online]. 2019, vol.10, n.1, pp.36-46. ISSN 2219-7168.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.33595/2226-1478.10.1.328.

The research addresses the issue of education and food in the Aymara communities, which with its varied forms and styles differs from other realities. The objective is to describe and interpret education and food. For this, the method and technique of ethnography has been used. As a result of the research, the experiential education and the great changes in the food habits brought by the market are presented, the Aymara communities are still going to a varied gastronomy (breakfast, cold cuts and food), in fact, the preparation of food The peasant families are depending on what is grown, what nature offers and the industrialized foods that are easily obtained in the local market. Consumption is closely related to the climatic seasons of the agricultural year, which are: "jallupacha or chuxñapacha" (rainy season) and "awtipacha" (dry season). In conclusion, the learning and wisdom of eating meals in Aymara communities is visualized, which can be used in school, college and university, in order to revalue and teach these practices of wisdom in relation to education and food

Keywords : food; education; culture; gastronomy and industrialized foods.

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