Her cup for sweet cacao : food in ancient Maya society /

These chapters, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, showcase a variety of approaches and present new evidence from faunal remains, hieroglyphic texts, chemical analyses, and art. Thoughtful and revealing, Her Cup for Sweet Cacao unlocks a more comprehensive understanding of how foo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ardren, Traci (Editor )
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
Temas:
Mayas > Food.
Mayas > Social life and customs.
Food habits > Central America > History.
Food habits > Mexico > History.
Food > Social aspects > Central America.
Food > Social aspects > Mexico.
Mayas > Alimentation.
Mayas > Mœurs et coutumes.
Habitudes alimentaires > Amérique centrale > Histoire.
Habitudes alimentaires > Mexique > Histoire.
Aliments > Aspect social > Amérique centrale.
Aliments > Aspect social > Mexique.
Antiquities
Food habits
Food > Social aspects
Mayas > Food
Mayas > Social life and customs
Central America > Antiquities.
Mexico > Antiquities.
Mexique > Antiquités.
Central America
Mexico
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Traci Ardren
  • Pot luck : bulding community and feasting amongst the Middle Preclassic Maya / M. Kathryn Brown and Carolyn Freiwald
  • A toast to the earth : the social role of beverages in pre-Hispanic Maya cave ritual at Pacbitun, Belize / Jon Spenard, Adam King, Terry G. Powis, and Nilesh Gaikwad
  • The epigraphy of ancient Maya food and drink / Nicholas Carter and Mallory Matsumoto
  • Plant foodstuffs of the ancient Maya : agents and matter, medium and message / Shanti Morell-Hart
  • Food, friend, or offering : exploring the role of Maya dogs in the zooarchaeological record / Petra Cunningham-Smith, Ashley E. Sharpe, Erin Kennedy Thornton, Arianne Boileau, and Kitty F. Emery
  • Celebrating Sihó : the role of food and foodways in the construction of social identities / Lilia Fernández Souza, Mario Zimmermann, Socorro del Pilar Jiménez Álvarez
  • Cuisine and feasting in the Copán and Lower Ulúa Valleys in Honduras / Julia A. Hendon
  • Talking feasts : classic Maya commensal politics at La Corona / Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire
  • Thinking (and eating) Chichen Itza : the role of new food technology and feasting in creating the Itza state at Xuenkal / Traci Ardren
  • Faunal foods as indices of commoner wealth (or poverty) in rural versus urban houselots of the terminal Classic and Postclassic in northwest Yucatan / Marilyn A. Masson, Timothy S. Hare, Bradley W. Russell, and Carlos Peraza Lope
  • Human-deity relationships conveyed through Balche' rituals and resource procurement / Gabrielle Vail and Maia Dedrick
  • Conclusion: In Maya food studies, who is Mayan? What is food? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher.

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