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

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : illustrations Series William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere 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 Notes ProQuest Ebook Central Rental Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-203) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject 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 SUBJECT Central America -- Social life and customs Central America -- Colonization Form Electronic book Author Schwartzkopf, Stacey, editor Sampeck, Kathryn E., editor ProQuest (Firm) ISBN 9781477313886 (electronic bk.) 1477313885 (electronic bk.)

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