Pre-Columbian foodways : interdisciplinary approaches to food, culture, and markets in ancient Mesoamerica

Parallelsachtitel: Precolumbian foodways
Weitere Verfasser: Staller, John E. , [HerausgeberIn]
Carrasco, Michael , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010.
Ausgabe: Softcover re-print of the Hardcover 1st edition 2010.
Umfang/Format: xiii, 691 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
Indians of Mexico > Food.
Indians of Central America > Food.
Indians of Mexico > Social life and customs.
Indians of Central America > Social life and customs.
Indians of Mexico > Antiquities.
Indians of Central America > Antiquities.
Food habits > Mexico.
Food habits > Central America.
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Table of contents only
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Ethnohistoric sources on foodways, feasts, and festivals in Mesoamerica / John E. Staller
  • Development or agriculture in prehistoric Mesoamerica : the linguistic evidence / Cecil H. Brown
  • The pastoral niche in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica / Jeffrey R. Parsons
  • The drink mescal : its origin and ritual uses / Mari Carmen Serra and Carlos Lazcano A.
  • Forming Mesoamerican taste : cacao consumption in formative period contexts / Rosemary A. Joyce and John S. Henderson
  • Salt production and trade in ancient Mesoamerica / Eduardo Williams
  • The dirt on food : ancient feasts and markets among the lowland Maya / Bruce H. Dahlin ... [et al.]
  • An epigraphic analysis of classic-period Maya foodstuffs / Kerry Hull
  • Sweet cacao and sour atole : mixed drinks on classic Maya ceramic vases / Dmitri Beliaev, Albert Davletshin, and Alexandre Tokovinine
  • Prehistoric chronology of the common bean in the New World : the linguistic evidence / Cecil H. Brown
  • Death and chocolate : the significance of cacao offerings in ancient Maya tombs and caches at Copan, Honduras / Cameron L. McNeil
  • Feasting with foam : ceremonial drinks of cacao, maize, and pataxte cacao / Judith Strupp Green
  • Corn, colanders, and cooking : early maize processing in the Maya lowlands and its implications / David Cheetham
  • Potographies and biographies : the role of food in ritual and identity as seen through life histories of selected Maya pots and people / Linda Howie, Christine D. White, and Fred J. Longstaffe
  • Dietary diversity in the upper Belize River Valley : a zooarchaeological and isotopic perspective / Carolyn R. Freiwald
  • Power plants : paleobotanical evidence of rural feasting in late classic Belize / David J. Goldstein and Jon B. Hageman
  • Food and feasting in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo / E.N. Anderson
  • All maize is not equal : maize variety choices and Mayan foodways in rural Yucatan, Mexico / John Tuxill ... [et al.]
  • Maya foodways : a reflection of gender and ideology / Amber O'Connor
  • The axolotl as food and symbol in the basin of Mexico, from 1200 BC to today / Carolyn E. Tate
  • Topophilia : a tool for the demarcation of cultural microregions : the case of the Huaxteca / Lorenzo Ochoa
  • This world and beyond : food practices and the social order in Mayan religion / Brian Stross
  • Maize was their flesh : ritual feasting in the Maya highlands / Allen J. Christenson
  • From field to hearth : an earthly interpretation of Maya and other Mesoamerican creation myths / Michael D. Carrasco
  • The flesh of god : cosmology, food, and the origins of political power in ancient southeastern Mesoamerica / David Freidel and F. Kent Reilly III.

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