Pre-Columbian Foodways Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Staller, John. (Editor), Carrasco, Michael. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Regional planning.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Regional and Cultural Studies.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0471-3

The significance of food and feasting to Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures has been extensively studied by archaeologists, anthropologists and art historians. Foodways studies have been critical to our understanding of early agriculture, political economies, and the domestication and management of...

Table of Contents:

• Ethnohistoric sources on Foodways, Feasts, and Festivals in Mesoamerica
• Development of Agriculture in Prehistoric Mesoamerica
• The Pastoral Niche in Prehispanic Mesoamerica
• The Drink Mescal
• Forming Mesoamerican taste
• Salt Production and Trade in Ancient Mesoamerica
• Ancient Maya Economies from the Bottom Up
• Deciphering the Hieroglyphic Menu.-Terms of the Ancient Maya.-Sweet Cacao and Sour Atole
• Prehistoric Chronology of the Common Bean in the New World
• Death and Chocolate
• Feasting with Foam
• Corn, Colanders, and Cooking
• Potographies and biographies
• Dietary Diversity in the upper Belize River Valley
• Power of Plants
• Food and Feasting in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo
• All Maize is Not Equal: Maize Variety Choices and Mayan Foodways in Contemporary Rural Yucatan, Mexico
• Maya Foodways
• The axolotl
• Topophilia
• This World and Beyond
• Maize Was Their Flesh
• From Field to Hearth
• The Flesh of God.