Paulina Machuca She is a professor-researcher at El Colegio de Michoacán. In recent years he has specialized in the history of cultural exchanges between Mexico and the Philippines during the 16th to 18th centuries. Among the most recent scientific production are the book coordinated with Thomas Calvo (2016), México y Filipinas: Culturas y memoria sobre el Pacífico, under the seal of El Colegio de Michoacán and the Ateneo de Manila University, and in 2018, El vino of coconuts in New Spain. History of a transculturation in the seventeenth century, 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). He is a member of the National System of Researchers, Level 2.

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To make tuba in Mexico and the Philippines. Four centuries of shared history

  • Paulina Machuca

The main objective of this documentary is to show the art of making tuba in two geographically distant places, but united by history: Colima, in western Mexico and Bohol, in the Philippines. The tuba is a drink obtained from the sap of the palm tree (Cocos nucifera L.), whose technique was introduced in western Mexico in the 17th century, thanks to the Filipinos who arrived aboard the Manila Galleon. The public will be able to know, from a comparative perspective, the processes of its elaboration, its forms of consumption and commercialization, as well as its cultural importance in their respective contexts.