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Title Chocolate in Mesoamerica : a cultural history of cacao / edited by Cameron L. McNeil ; foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 542 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Maya studies
Maya studies.
Contents 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
Summary 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 Americas, this volume provides a richly informed account of the history and cultural significance of chocolate
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-514) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject 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
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Cacao -- América central -- Historia
Antiquities
Cacao
Chocolate
Drinking customs
Ethnopharmacology
Mayas -- Agriculture
Mayas -- Ethnobotany
Mayas -- Food
Plant remains (Archaeology)
Cacao.
Eetcultuur.
Mayas -- Ethnobotanique.
Mayas -- Agriculture.
Cacao -- Amérique latine -- Histoire.
Boissons -- Fonctions sociales -- Amérique latine -- Histoire.
SUBJECT Latin America -- Antiquities
Latin America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074879
Latin America
Subject Latin America
Midden-Amerika.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author McNeil, Cameron L
LC no. 2006040357
ISBN 9780813040059
0813040051
0813039509
9780813039503