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<\/a>“Hybrid corn being produced by a small farmer,” 1964. Source: Rockefeller Archive Center\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n In the editor’s letter<\/a> of the most recent issue of HCS-Manguinhos (HCSM,\u00a0v. 28, n. 4<\/a>) the journal’s scientific editor, Marcos Cueto, highlights the main themes and approaches in the historiography of food in Latin America:<\/p>\n “Ground-breaking studies have analyzed the discourses of progress that associated indigenous and Afro-American foods with discrimination and backwardness, with the deterioration of subsistence agriculture, with the invisibilization of women and their domestic tasks, with the changing meanings of the concepts of \u201cmalnutrition\u201d and \u201chunger,\u201d with the vicissitudes of vitamins and proteins, as well as with health campaigns to educate the population on \u201chealthy\u201d diets and the growing political power of the commercial food industry.”<\/p>\n The letter also introduces the dossier\u00a0“La Cuesti\u00f3n de la Leche en Am\u00e9rica Latina<\/a>“, about the production, representation and consumption of a food that has been glorified and associated with \u201cgood\u201d motherhood in Latin America: animal milk.<\/p>\n See in HCS-Manguinhos:<\/p>\n Cueto, Marcos. La importancia de la alimentaci\u00f3n para los historiadores.<\/a> Hist\u00f3ria, Ci\u00eancias, Sa\u00fade-Manguinhos [online]. 2021, v. 28, n. 4 [Accessed\u00a017 December 2021].<\/p>\n