| Description |
xvi, 542 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Maya studies
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Maya studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Subject |
Mayas -- Food.
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Mayas -- Food. |
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Mayas. |
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Mayas -- Ethnobotany.
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Mayas -- Ethnobotany. |
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Mayas -- Agriculture.
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Mayas -- Agriculture. |
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Chocolate -- Latin America -- History.
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Chocolate. |
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Latin America. |
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History. |
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Cacao -- Latin America -- History.
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Cacao. |
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Drinking customs -- Latin America -- History.
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Drinking customs. |
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Plant remains (Archaeology) -- Latin America.
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Plant remains (Archaeology) |
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Ethnopharmacology -- Latin America.
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Ethnopharmacology. |
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Latin America -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Mayas -- Alimentation. |
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Mayas -- Ethnobotanique. |
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Mayas -- Agriculture. |
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Chocolat -- Amérique latine -- Histoire. |
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Cacaoyer -- Amérique latine -- Histoire. |
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Boissons -- Fonctions sociales -- Amérique latine -- Histoire. |
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Restes de plantes (Archéologie) -- Amérique latine. |
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Ethnopharmacologie -- Amérique latine. |
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Amérique latine -- Antiquités. |
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Cacao. |
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Eetcultuur. |
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Midden-Amerika. |
| Added Author |
McNeil, Cameron L.
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| ISBN |
0813029538 alkaline paper |
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9780813029535 alkaline paper |
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