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Substance and Seduction : Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica / ed. by Kathryn E. Sampeck, Stacey Schwartzkopf.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781477313886
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 972.81 23
LOC classification:
  • F1435.3.F7 S83 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION. Consuming Desires in Mesoamerica -- Part I. OLD FLAMES, NEW LOVES -- CHAPTER 1. Sandcastles of the Mind: Hallucinogens and Cultural Memory -- CHAPTER 2. Alcohol and Commodity Succession in Colonial Maya Guatemala: From Mead to Aguardiente -- CHAPTER 3. Translating Tastes: A Cartography of Chocolate Colonialism -- Part II. SUBSTANTIAL MATTERS -- CHAPTER 4. Real Tobacco for Real People: Nicotine and Lacandon Maya Trade -- CHAPTER 5. Health Food and Diabolic Vice: Pulque Discourse in New Spain -- CHAPTER 6. “Confi tes, Melcochas y Otras Golosinas . . . Muy Dañosas”: Sugar, Alcohol, and Biopolitics in Colonial Guatemala -- AFTERWORD -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Mesoamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded, even by those who had never encountered them before? The contributors to this volume explore these questions across a range of times, places, and peoples to discover how the individual pleasures of consumption were shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political forces. Focusing on ingestible substances as a group, which has not been done before in the scholarly literature, the chapters in Substance and Seduction trace three key links between colonization and commodification. First, as substances that were taken into the bodies of both colonizers and colonized, these foods and drugs participated in unexpected connections among sites of production and consumption; racial and ethnic categories; and free, forced, and enslaved labor regimes. Second, as commodities developed in the long transition from mercantile to modern capitalism, each substance in some way drew its enduring power from its ability to seduce: to stimulate bodies; to alter minds; to mark class, social, and ethnic boundaries; and to generate wealth. Finally, as objects of scholarly inquiry, each substance rewards interdisciplinary approaches that balance the considerations of pleasure and profit, materiality and morality, and culture and political economy.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION. Consuming Desires in Mesoamerica -- Part I. OLD FLAMES, NEW LOVES -- CHAPTER 1. Sandcastles of the Mind: Hallucinogens and Cultural Memory -- CHAPTER 2. Alcohol and Commodity Succession in Colonial Maya Guatemala: From Mead to Aguardiente -- CHAPTER 3. Translating Tastes: A Cartography of Chocolate Colonialism -- Part II. SUBSTANTIAL MATTERS -- CHAPTER 4. Real Tobacco for Real People: Nicotine and Lacandon Maya Trade -- CHAPTER 5. Health Food and Diabolic Vice: Pulque Discourse in New Spain -- CHAPTER 6. “Confi tes, Melcochas y Otras Golosinas . . . Muy Dañosas”: Sugar, Alcohol, and Biopolitics in Colonial Guatemala -- AFTERWORD -- Bibliography -- Index

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Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Mesoamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded, even by those who had never encountered them before? The contributors to this volume explore these questions across a range of times, places, and peoples to discover how the individual pleasures of consumption were shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political forces. Focusing on ingestible substances as a group, which has not been done before in the scholarly literature, the chapters in Substance and Seduction trace three key links between colonization and commodification. First, as substances that were taken into the bodies of both colonizers and colonized, these foods and drugs participated in unexpected connections among sites of production and consumption; racial and ethnic categories; and free, forced, and enslaved labor regimes. Second, as commodities developed in the long transition from mercantile to modern capitalism, each substance in some way drew its enduring power from its ability to seduce: to stimulate bodies; to alter minds; to mark class, social, and ethnic boundaries; and to generate wealth. Finally, as objects of scholarly inquiry, each substance rewards interdisciplinary approaches that balance the considerations of pleasure and profit, materiality and morality, and culture and political economy.

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