Tuba making in Mexico and the Philippines

four centuries of a common history

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v2n3.82

Keywords:

tuba, filipinos, Colima, Bohol, Manila Galleon

Abstract

A documentary focused on the art of tuba making in two different places, geographycally distant but historically and culturally close: Colima, in the western part of Meico, and Bohol, in Central Bisayas, Philippines. Tuba is a beverage obtained from the sap of the palm tree (Cocos nucifera L.). This tecnhique was introduced in western Mexico during the Seventeenth century by the filipinos who arrived in the Manila Galleon. The public can approach, from a comparative perspective, to the process of its elaboration, consumption and commerce in both countries, as well as its cultural importance.

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Author Biography

  • Paulina Machuca, El Colegio de Michoacán

    Paulina Machuca is a research professor at El Colegio de Michoacán. In recent years she has specialized in the history of cultural exchanges between Mexico and the Philippines during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Among the most recent scientific production are the book coordinated with Thomas Calvo (2016), Mexico and the Philippines: Cultures and memories on the Pacific, under the imprint of El Colegio de Michoacán and the Ateneo de Manila University, and in 2018, Coconut wine in New Spain. Historia de una transculturación en el siglo XVII, by El Colegio de Michoacán. In 2011 she received the Scholarship for Women in the Humanities, a distinction awarded by the Presidency of the Republic and Conacyt, and in 2018 she taught the Chair in Latin America at the University of Toulouse (France). She is a member of the National System of Researchers, Level 2.

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Published

2019-03-21

How to Cite

Tuba making in Mexico and the Philippines: four centuries of a common history. (2019). Encartes, 2(3), 214-225. https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v2n3.82