Research Catalog

Title

Chocolate in Mesoamerica : a cultural history of cacao / edited by Cameron L. McNeil ; foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

McNeil, Cameron L.

Description

xvi, 542 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Maya studies

Subject

• Mayas > Food
• Mayas > Ethnobotany
• Mayas > Agriculture
• Chocolate > Latin America > History
• Cacao > Latin America > History
• Drinking customs > Latin America > History
• Plant remains (Archaeology) > Latin America
• Ethnopharmacology > Latin America
• Mayas > Alimentation
• Mayas > Ethnobotanique
• Chocolat > Amérique latine > Histoire
• Cacaoyer > Amérique latine > Histoire
• Boissons > Fonctions sociales > Histoire. > Amérique latine
• Restes de plantes (Archéologie) > Amérique latine
• Ethnopharmacologie > Amérique latine
• Latin America > Antiquities
• Amérique latine > Antiquités

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-514) and index.

Contents

Introduction : The biology, antiquity, and modern uses of the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao L.) / Cameron L. McNeil -- Cacao and its relatives in South America : an overview of taxonomy, ecology, biogeography, chemistry, and ethnobotany / Nathaniel Bletter and Douglas C. Daly -- The domestication and distribution of Theobroma cacao L. in the neotropics / Nisao Ogata, Arturo Gómez-Pompa, and Karl A. Taube -- The jaguar tree (Theobroma bicolor Bonpl.) / Johanna Kufer and Cameron L. McNeil -- The determination of cacao in samples of archaeological interest / W. Jeffrey Hurst -- The history of the word for 'cacao' and related terms in ancient Meso-America / Terrence Kaufman and John Justeson -- Brewing distinction : the development of cacao beverages in formative Mesoamerica / John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce -- Cacao in ancient Maya religion : first fruit from the maize tree and other tales from the underworld / Simon Martin -- The language of chocolate : references to cacao on classic Maya drinking vessels / David Stuart -- The social context of Kakaw drinking among the ancient Maya / Dorie Reents-Budet -- The use and representation of cacao during the classic period at Copan, Honduras / Cameron L. McNeil, W. Jeffrey Hurst, and Robert J. Sharer -- Cacao in greater Nicoya : ethnohistory and a unique tradition / Larry Steinbrenner -- The good and evil of chocolate in colonial Mexico / Manuel Aguilar-Morena -- The Itza Maya control over cacao : politics, commerce, and war in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Laura Caso Barrera and Mario Aliphat F. -- Cacao production, tribute, and wealth in sixteenth-century Izalcos, El Salvador / William R. Fowler -- Soconusco cacao farmers past and present : continuity and change in an ancient way of life / Janine Gasco -- Traditional cacao use in modern Meosamerica / Cameron L. McNeil -- Cacao, gender, and the northern Lacandon god house / Timothy W. Pugh -- Food for the rain gods : cacao in Ch'orti' ritual / Johanna Kufer and Michael Heinrich -- Cacao in the Yukatek Maya healing ceremonies of Don Pedro Ucán Itza / Betty Bernice Faust and Javier Hirose López -- From chocolate pots to Maya gold : Belizean cacao farmers through the ages / Patricia A. McAnany and Satoru Murata.

Call Number

JGE 07-154

ISBN

• 0813029538 (alk. paper)
• 9780813029535 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006040357

OCLC

63245604

Title

Chocolate in Mesoamerica : a cultural history of cacao / edited by Cameron L. McNeil ; foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase.

Imprint

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2006.

Series

Maya studies

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-514) and index.

Added Author

McNeil, Cameron L.

hg CFT/CML

Research Call Number

JGE 07-154