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Pre-Columbian foodways

interdisciplinary approaches to food, culture, and markets in ancient Mesoamerica

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An edition of Pre-Columbian foodways (2010)

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interdisciplinary approaches to food, culture, and markets in ancient Mesoamerica

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Volume originated from a session, "The Role of Sustenance in the Feasts, Festivals, Rituals and Every Day Life of Mesoamerica," held during the 40th annual Chacmool Conference, "Eat Drink and Be Merry : the Archaeology of Foodways," hosted by the Chacmool Archaeological Association and the University of Calgary, Dept. of Archaeology, Nov. 10-12, 2007, Calgary, Alta. Cf. p. 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Titles
Precolumbian foodways

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Library of Congress
F1219.3.F64 P74 2010, CC1-960D1-DX301HM623

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xiii, 691 p. :
Number of pages
691

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OL24554479M
Internet Archive
precolumbianfood00stal
ISBN 10
1441904700
ISBN 13
9781441904706
LCCN
2010292464
OCLC/WorldCat
401159388

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