Substance and seduction ingested commodities in early modern Mesoamerica / edited by Stacey Schwartzkopf and Kathryn E. Sampeck.

Other author Schwartzkopf, Stacey.
Other author Sampeck, Kathryn E.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
Descriptionxvii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Mayas--Food.
Mayas--Substance use. --Social aspects.
Food consumption--Social aspects. --Central America.
Colonization--Social aspects. --Central America.
Consumption (Economics)--Central America.
Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience--Central America.
Ingestion--Central America. --Psychological aspects. --History.
Central America--Social life and customs.
Central America--Colonization.

Contents Introduction : consuming desires in Mesoamerica / Kathryn E. Sampeck and Stacey Schwartzkopf -- Sandcastles of the mind : hallucinogens and cultural memory / Martin Nesvig -- Alcohol and commodity succession in colonial Maya Guatemal a: from mead to aguardiente / Stacey Schwartzkopf -- Translating tastes : a cartography of chocolate colonialism / Kathryn E. Sampeck and Jonathan Thayn -- Real tobacco for real people : nicotine and lacandon Maya trade / Joel W. Palka -- Health food and diabolic vice : pulque discourse in new Spain / Joan Bristol -- "Confites, melcochas y otras golosinas . . . muy dañosas" : sugar, alcohol, and biopolitics in colonial Guatemala / Guido Pezzarossi.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 183-203) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017012667
ISBN9781477313862 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781477313879 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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