Chocolate in Mesoamerica : a cultural history of cacao /

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From the botanical structure and chemical makeup of Theobroma cacao and methods of identifying it in the archaeological record, to the importance of cacao during the Classic period in Mesoamerica, to the impact of European arrival on the production and use of cacao, to contemporary uses in the Ameri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McNeil, Cameron L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2006.
Colección:Maya studies.
Temas:
Mayas > Food.
Mayas > Ethnobotany.
Mayas > Agriculture.
Chocolate > Latin America > History.
Cacao > Latin America > History.
Drinking customs > Latin America > History.
Plant remains (Archaeology) > Latin America.
Ethnopharmacology > Latin America.
Cacao.
Cacao
Ethnopharmacology > history
Mayas > Alimentation.
Mayas > Ethnobotanique.
Chocolat > Amérique latine > Histoire.
Cacaoyer > Amérique latine > Histoire.
Boissons > Fonctions sociales > Amérique latine > Histoire.
Restes de plantes (Archéologie) > Amérique latine.
Ethnopharmacologie > Amérique latine.
Cacaoyer.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Cacao > América central > Historia
Antiquities
Chocolate
Drinking customs
Ethnopharmacology
Mayas > Agriculture
Mayas > Ethnobotany
Mayas > Food
Plant remains (Archaeology)
Eetcultuur.
Cacao > Amérique latine > Histoire.
Latin America > Antiquities.
Latin America.
Latin America
Amérique latine > Antiquités.
Amérique latine.
Midden-Amerika.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The biology, antiquity, and modern uses of the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao L.) / Cameron L. McNeil
  • Cacao and its relatives in South America : an overview of taxonomy, ecology, biogeography, chemistry, and ethnobotany / Nathaniel Bletter and Douglas C. Daly
  • The domestication and distribution of Theobroma cacao L. in the neotropics / Nisao Ogata, Arturo Gómez-Pompa, and Karl A. Taube
  • The jaguar tree (Theobroma bicolor Bonpl.) / Johanna Kufer and Cameron L. McNeil
  • The determination of cacao in samples of archaeological interest / W. Jeffrey Hurst
  • The history of the word for 'cacao' and related terms in ancient Meso-America / Terrence Kaufman and John Justeson
  • Brewing distinction : the development of cacao beverages in formative Mesoamerica / John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce
  • Cacao in ancient Maya religion : first fruit from the maize tree and other tales from the underworld / Simon Martin
  • The language of chocolate : references to cacao on classic Maya drinking vessels / David Stuart
  • The social context of Kakaw drinking among the ancient Maya / Dorie Reents-Budet
  • The use and representation of cacao during the classic period at Copan, Honduras / Cameron L. McNeil, W. Jeffrey Hurst, and Robert J. Sharer
  • Cacao in greater Nicoya : ethnohistory and a unique tradition / Larry Steinbrenner
  • The good and evil of chocolate in colonial Mexico / Manuel Aguilar-Morena
  • The Itza Maya control over cacao : politics, commerce, and war in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Laura Caso Barrera and Mario Aliphat F.
  • Cacao production, tribute, and wealth in sixteenth-century Izalcos, El Salvador / William R. Fowler
  • Soconusco cacao farmers past and present : continuity and change in an ancient way of life / Janine Gasco
  • Traditional cacao use in modern Meosamerica / Cameron L. McNeil
  • Cacao, gender, and the northern Lacandon god house / Timothy W. Pugh
  • Food for the rain gods : cacao in Ch'orti' ritual / Johanna Kufer and Michael Heinrich
  • Cacao in the Yukatek Maya healing ceremonies of Don Pedro Ucán Itza / Betty Bernice Faust and Javier Hirose López
  • From chocolate pots to Maya gold : Belizean cacao farmers through the ages / Patricia A. McAnany and Satoru Murata.

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