Substance and Seduction : : Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica /

Substance and Seduction : : Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica / / ed. by Kathryn E. Sampeck, Stacey Schwartzkopf.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Bristol, Joan,
Martin, Carla D.,
Nesvig, Martin,
Norton, Marcy,
Palka, Joel W.,
Pezzarossi, Guido,
Sampeck, Kathryn E.,
Schwartzkopf, Stacey,
Thayn, Jonathan,
HerausgeberIn:
Sampeck, Kathryn E.,
Schwartzkopf, Stacey,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2017
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION. Consuming Desires in Mesoamerica
  • Part I. OLD FLAMES, NEW LOVES
  • CHAPTER 1. Sandcastles of the Mind: Hallucinogens and Cultural Memory
  • CHAPTER 2. Alcohol and Commodity Succession in Colonial Maya Guatemala: From Mead to Aguardiente
  • CHAPTER 3. Translating Tastes: A Cartography of Chocolate Colonialism
  • Part II. SUBSTANTIAL MATTERS
  • CHAPTER 4. Real Tobacco for Real People: Nicotine and Lacandon Maya Trade
  • CHAPTER 5. Health Food and Diabolic Vice: Pulque Discourse in New Spain
  • CHAPTER 6. “Confi tes, Melcochas y Otras Golosinas . . . Muy Dañosas”: Sugar, Alcohol, and Biopolitics in Colonial Guatemala
  • AFTERWORD
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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