TY  - BOOK
AU  - Staller,John E.
AU  - Carrasco,Michael
ED  - University of Calgary Archaeological Association.
TI  - Pre-Columbian foodways: interdisciplinary approaches to food, culture, and markets in ancient Mesoamerica 
SN  - 1441904700
U1  - 641.3009720902 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Springer
KW  - Indians of Mexico
KW  - Food
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Indians of Central America
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Food habits
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Central America
N1  - Volume originated from a session, "The Role of Sustenance in the Feasts, Festivals, Rituals and Every Day Life of Mesoamerica," held during the 40th annual Chacmool Conference, "Eat Drink and Be Merry : the Archaeology of Foodways," hosted by the Chacmool Archaeological Association and the University of Calgary, Dept. of Archaeology, Nov. 10-12, 2007, Calgary, Alta. Cf. p. 1; Includes bibliographical references and index; Pre-Columbian Foodways in Mesoamerica; John E. Staller, Michael D. Carrasco --; Part I; Agriculture and Social Complexity: The Roles of Feasting and Ritual Economies --; Ethnohistoric Sources on Foodways, Feasts, and Festivals in Mesoamerica; John E. Staller --; Development of Agriculture in Prehistoric Mesoamerica: The Linguistic Evidence; Cecil H. Brown --; The Pastoral Niche in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica; Jeffrey R. Parsons --; The Drink Mescal: Its Origin and Ritual Uses Mari; Carmen Serra, Carlos Lazcano A --; Forming Mesoamerican Taste: Cacao Consumption in Formative Period Contexts; Rosemary A. Joyce, John S. Henderson --; Salt Production and Trade in Ancient Mesoamerica; Eduardo Williams --; The Dirt on Food: Ancient Feasts and Markets Among the Lowland Maya; Bruce H. Dahlin, Daniel Bair, Tim Beach, Matthew Moriarty, Richard Terry --; Part II; Ethnography, Ethnobotany, Language and Diet --; An Epigraphic Analysis of Classic-Period Maya Foodstuffs; Kerry Hull --; Sweet Cacao and Sour Atole: Mixed Drinks on Classic Maya Ceramic Vases; Dmitri Beliaev, Albert Davletshin, Alexandre Tokovinine --; Prehistoric Chronology of the Common Bean in the New World: The Linguistic Evidence; Cecil H. Brown --; Death and Chocolate: The Significance of Cacao Offerings in Ancient Maya Tombs and Caches at Copan, Honduras; Cameron L. McNeil --; Feasting with Foam: Ceremonial Drinks of Cacao, Maize, and Pataxte Cacao; Judith Strupp Green --; Corn, Colanders, and Cooking: Early Maize Processing in the Maya Lowlands and Its Implications; David Cheetham --; Photographies and Biographies: The Role of Food in Ritual and Identity as Seen Through Life Histories of Selected Maya Pots and People; Linda Howie, Christine D. White, Fred J. Longstaffe --; Dietary Diversity in the Upper Belize River Valley: A Zooarchaeological and Isotopic Perspective; Carolyn R. Freiwald --; Power Plants: Paleobotanical Evidence of Rural Feasting in Late Classic Belize; David J. Goldstein, Jon B. Hageman --; Food and Feasting in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo; E.N. Anderson --; All Maize Is Not Equal: Maize Variety Choices and Mayan Foodways in Rural Yucatan, Mexico; John Tuxill, Luis Arias Reyes, Luis Latournerie Moreno, Vidal Cob Uicab, Devra I. Jarvis --; Maya Foodways: A Reflection of Gender and Ideology; Amber O'Connor --; Part III; Food as Metaphor: Mythology and Iconography --; The Axolotl as Food and Symbol in the Basin of Mexico, from 1200 BC to today; Carolyn E. Tate --; Topophilia: A Tool for the Demarcation of Cultural Microregions: The Case of the Huaxteca; Lorenzo Ochoa --; This World and Beyond: Food Practices and the Social Order in Mayan Religion; Brian Stross --; Maize Was Their Flesh: Ritual Feasting in the Maya Highlands; Allen J. Christenson --; From Field to Hearth: An Earthly Interpretation of Maya and Other Mesoamerican Creation Myths; Michael D. Carrasco --; The Flesh of God: Cosmology, Food, and the Origins of Political Power in Ancient Southeastern Mesoamerica; David Freidel and F. Kent Reilly III
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