By John Staller,Michael Carrasco
ISBN-10: 1441904700
ISBN-13: 9781441904706
ISBN-10: 1489983198
ISBN-13: 9781489983190
The value of foodstuff and feasting to Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures has been commonly studied by way of archaeologists, anthropologists and artwork historians. Foodways reviews were severe to our knowing of early agriculture, political economies, and the domestication and administration of crops and animals. students from different fields have explored the symbolic complexity of foodstuff and its training, in addition to the social value of feasting in modern and historic societies. This publication unites those disciplinary views — from the social and organic sciences to artwork historical past and epigraphy — making a paintings entire in scope, which finds our expanding knowing of many of the roles of meals and cuisines in Mesoamerican cultures.
The quantity is prepared thematically into 3 sections. half 1 offers an outline of foodstuff and feasting practices in addition to old economies in Mesoamerica. half 2 info ethnographic, epigraphic and isotopic facts of those practices. ultimately, half three offers the metaphoric worth of foodstuff in Mesoamerican symbolism, ritual, and mythology. The ensuing quantity offers a radical, interdisciplinary source for knowing, foodstuff, feasting, and cultural practices in Mesoamerica.
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