Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways: Indigenous Traditions As a Recipe for Living Well

Time: Sept. 25, 2024, noon - 1:30 p.m.

Location: 060 Eggers

Huambachano Book cover showing indigenous communities sorting through field harvested food

Mariaelena Huambachano (NAIS, REL)
Gail Hamner (REL)
Thomas Perreault (GEO)
Chie Sakakibara (GEO)

All are welcome to celebrate and learn more about Mariaelena Huambachano's recently released book, Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways: Indigenous Traditions as a Recipe for Living Well (2024), through this reception and discussion with colleagues, Hamner and Perreault.

The book offers a profound exploration of the philosophies of well-being and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the Māori and Quechua peoples. Drawing from over a decade of immersive fieldwork in Peru and Aotearoa New Zealand, the book reveals how these Indigenous communities define and achieve well-being through their foodways.