Substance and seduction : ingested commodities in early modern Mesoamerica /

Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms--these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Mesoamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schwartzkopf, Stacey (Editor ), Sampeck, Kathryn E. (Editor )
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
Temas:
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.
Mayas > Alimentation.
Mayas > Usage de substances psychoactives > Aspect social.
Aliments > Consommation > Aspect social > Amérique centrale.
Colonisation > Aspect social > Amérique centrale.
Hallucinogènes et expérience religieuse > Amérique centrale.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
HISTORY / Latin America / General
Colonization
Colonization > Social aspects
Consumption (Economics)
Food consumption > Social aspects
Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience
Ingestion > Psychological aspects
Manners and customs
Mayas > Food
Central America > Social life and customs.
Central America > Colonization.
Amérique centrale > Mœurs et coutumes.
Amérique centrale > Colonisation.
Central America
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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