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Sacred consumption : food and ritual in Aztec art and culture / Elizabeth Morán.
Author
Morán, Elizabeth, Ph.D.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Austin : University of Texas Press, [2016]
Description
xii, 142 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Available Online
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F1219.76.F67 M67 2016
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Subject(s)
Aztecs
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Food
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Food in art
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Food
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Social aspects
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Mexico
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Aztec art
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Themes, motives
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Aztecs
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Social life and customs
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Art, Mexican
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History
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Indigenous Studies
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Series
Latin American and Caribbean arts and culture publication initiative (Andrew W. Mellon foundation)
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Summary note
"Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs and food processing and consumption. Both gods and humans were depicted feasting, and food and eating clearly played a pervasive, integral role in Aztec rituals. Basic foods were transformed into sacred elements within particular rituals, while food in turn gave meaning to the ritual performance. This pioneering book offers the first integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art. Elizabeth Morán asserts that while feasting and consumption are often seen as a secondary aspect of ritual performance, a close examination of images of food rites in Aztec ceremonies demonstrates that the presence--or, in some cases, the absence--of food in the rituals gave them significance. She traces the ritual use of food from the beginning of Aztec mythic history through contact with Europeans, demonstrating how food and ritual activity, the everyday and the sacred, blended in ceremonies that ranged from observances of births, marriages, and deaths to sacrificial offerings of human hearts and blood to feed the gods and maintain the cosmic order. Morán also briefly considers continuities in the use of pre-Hispanic foods in the daily life and ritual practices of contemporary Mexico. Bringing together two domains that have previously been studied in isolation, Sacred Consumption promises to be a foundational work in Mesoamerican studies"--Publisher's description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-131) and index.
Contents
Ceremonial consumption in everyday life
Food in Aztec public ritual
Aztec myths, cosmovision. and food
Food and ritual after the conquest
Some final thoughts on food.
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Food and ritual in Aztec art and culture
ISBN
9781477310595 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1477310592 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9781477310694 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
147731069X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
SuDoc no.
Z UA380.8 M793sa
LCCN
2015043235
OCLC
928751126
Other standard number
40026642468
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