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" Chocolate in Mesoamerica : "
edited by Cameron L. McNeil ; foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
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BL
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635989
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Chocolate in Mesoamerica : : a cultural history of cacao /\ edited by Cameron L. McNeil ; foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
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| Series Statement
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Maya studies
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xvi, 542 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 25 cm
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0813029538 (alk. paper)
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: 9780813029535 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [451]-514) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Mayas-- Food
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Mayas-- Ethnobotany
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Mayas-- Agriculture
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Chocolate-- Latin America-- History
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Cacao-- Latin America-- History
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Drinking customs-- Latin America-- History
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Plant remains (Archaeology)-- Latin America
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Ethnopharmacology-- Latin America
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Latin America, Antiquities
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| Dewey Classification
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972/.01
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| LC Classification
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F1435.3.F7C46 2006
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| Added Entry
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McNeil, Cameron L
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