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elements-9955	Stone, Lindsay	Food for Thought: How Food and Economics Intersect in Rural Ecuador	2018	9	.pdf	application/pdf	5546	217	46	The availability of both new foodstuffs and new socioeco- nomic hierarchies, which were established after the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, also led to a decreased con- sumption of many traditional foods. Ultimately, as a result of socioeconomic influences and Ecuador’s history of colonization, repression, and class- stratification, food in Ecuadorian society can be seen to function in a semiotic manner, endowed with meaning according to cultural signification and its dissimilarity from other foods.	cache/elements-9955.pdf	txt/elements-9955.txt