TY  - BOOK
AU  - McNeil,Cameron L.
TI  - Chocolate in Mesoamerica: a cultural history of cacao 
T2  - Maya studies
SN  - 9780813040059
AV  - F1435.3.F7 C46 2006eb
U1  - 972/.01 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Mayas
KW  - Food
KW  - Ethnobotany
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Chocolate
KW  - Latin America
KW  - History
KW  - Cacao
KW  - Drinking customs
KW  - Plant remains (Archaeology)
KW  - Ethnopharmacology
KW  - history
KW  - Alimentation
KW  - Ethnobotanique
KW  - Chocolat
KW  - Amérique latine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Cacaoyer
KW  - Boissons
KW  - Fonctions sociales
KW  - Restes de plantes (Archéologie)
KW  - Ethnopharmacologie
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Mexico
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - América central
KW  - Historia
KW  - embne
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - fast
KW  - gtt
KW  - Eetcultuur
KW  - ram
KW  - Antiquités
KW  - Midden-Amerika
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-514) and index; 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
N2  - From the botanical structure and chemical makeup of Theobroma cacao and methods of identifying it in the archaeological record, to the importance of cacao during the Classic period in Mesoamerica, to the impact of European arrival on the production and use of cacao, to contemporary uses in the Americas, this volume provides a richly informed account of the history and cultural significance of chocolate
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