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Subject(s)

• Mayas—Food [Browse]
• Mayas—Substance use—Social aspects [Browse]
• Food consumption—Social aspects—Central America [Browse]
• Colonization—Social aspects—Central America [Browse]
• Consumption (Economics)—Central America [Browse]
• Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience—Central America [Browse]
• Ingestion—Central America—Psychological aspects—History [Browse]
• Central America—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Central America—Colonization [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Editor

• Schwartzkopf, Stacey [Browse]
• Sampeck, Kathryn E. [Browse]

Series

• William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere [More in this series]
• The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere

Summary note

"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, even by those who had never encountered them before? The contributors to this volume explore these questions across a range of times, places, and peoples to discover how the individual pleasures of consumption were shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political forces. Focusing on ingestible substances as a group, which has not been done before in the scholarly literature, the chapters trace three key links between colonization and commodification. First, as substances that were taken into the bodies of both colonizers and colonized, these foods and drugs participated in unexpected connections among sites of production and consumption; racial and ethnic categories; and free, forced, and enslaved labor regimes. Second, as commodities developed in the long transition from mercantile to modern capitalism, each substance in some way drew its enduring power from its ability to seduce: to stimulate bodies; to alter minds; to mark class, social, and ethnic boundaries; and to generate wealth. Finally, as objects of scholarly inquiry, each substance rewards interdisciplinary approaches that balance the considerations of pleasure and profit, materiality and morality, and culture and political economy."--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-203) and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Marcy Norton
• Preface / Stacey Schwartzkopf and Stacey Schwartzkopf
• Introduction. Consuming desires in Mesoamerica / Kathryn E. Sampeck and Stacey Schwartzkopf
• Part I. Old flames, new loves. Sandcastles of the mind : hallucinogens and cultural memory / Martin Nesvig ; Alcohol and commodity succession in colonial Maya Guatemala : from mead to aguardiente / Stacey Schwartzkopf ; Translating tastes : a cartography of chocolate colonialism / Kathryn E. Sampeck and Jonathan Thayn
• Part II. Substantial matters. 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
• Afterword / Carla D. Martin.
• 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 danosas" : sugar, alcohol, and biopolitics in colonial Guatemala / Guido Pezzarossi.

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ISBN

• 9781477313862 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
• 1477313869 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
• 9781477313879 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
• 1477313877 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)

SuDoc no.

Z UA380.8 SU16

Tech. report no.

(Coutts)037867958

LCCN

2017012667

OCLC

978295391

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