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Title

Tequila : a natural and cultural history / Ana Guadalupe Valenzuela-Zapata and Gary Paul Nabhan.

Author

Valenzuela Zapata, Ana Guadalupe, 1963-

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Nabhan, Gary Paul.

Description

xxxi, 113 p., [10] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"In Tequila! A Natural and Cultural History, Ana G. Valenzuela-Zapata, leading agronomist in Mexico's tequila industry, and Gary Paul Nabhan, one of America's most respected ethnobotanists, plumb the myth of tequila as they introduce the natural history, economics, and cultural significance of the plants cultivated for its production."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Agave tequilero. English

Alternative Title

Agave tequilero.

Subject

• Tequila agave > Jalisco
• Tequila industry > Mexico

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-113).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: a handful of dreams opened up to the sun / by Ana Guadalupe Valenzuela-Zapata -- Introduction: tequila hangovers and the mescal monoculture blues / by Gary Paul Nabhan -- Distilling the essences, blending two worlds -- Mescal de tequila: the Mexican-American microcosmos -- The wild origins and domestication of mescal de tequila -- Tillers and tale-tellers: the agrarian tradition of jimadores -- Out of the fields, into the fire: tradition and globalization -- When the epidemic hit the king of clones -- Landscape and pueblo: putting tequila in place -- Dreaming the future of tequila -- Appendix 1. A mescalero's lexicon -- Appendix 2. Common names for mescal-producing agaves in Spanish dialects and indigenous languages spoken in "mega-Mexico" -- Appendix 3. Agave species domesticated prehistorically for food, fiber, hedge, or beverage uses by indigenous communities -- Appendix 4. Species description of cultivated agave species historically used in the tequila industry.

ISBN

• 0816519374 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0816519382 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003011691

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library