Title Substance and seduction : ingested commodities in early modern Mesoamerica / edited by Stacey Schwartzkopf and Kathryn E. Sampeck

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere. Contents Introduction : consuming desires in Mesoamerica / Kathryn E. Sampeck and Stacey Schwartzkopf -- Sandcastles of the mind : hallucinogens and cultural memory / Martin Nesvig -- Alcohol and commodity succession in colonial Maya Guatemal a: from mead to aguardiente / Stacey Schwartzkopf -- Translating tastes : a cartography of chocolate colonialism / Kathryn E. Sampeck and Jonathan Thayn -- Real tobacco for real people : nicotine and lacandon Maya trade / Joel W. Palka -- Health food and diabolic vice : pulque discourse in new Spain / Joan Bristol -- "Confites, melcochas y otras golosinas ... muy dañosas" : sugar, alcohol, and biopolitics in colonial Guatemala / Guido Pezzarossi 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-203) and index Notes Print version record Subject Mayas -- Food Mayas -- Substance use -- Social aspects Food consumption -- Social aspects -- Central America Colonization -- Social aspects -- Central America Consumption (Economics) -- Central America Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience -- Central America Ingestion -- Central America -- Psychological aspects -- History HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. HISTORY / Latin America / General Colonization Colonization -- Social aspects Consumption (Economics) Food consumption -- Social aspects Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience Ingestion -- Psychological aspects Manners and customs Mayas -- Food SUBJECT Central America -- Social life and customs Central America -- Colonization Subject Central America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Schwartzkopf, Stacey, editor Sampeck, Kathryn E., editor ISBN 9781477313886 1477313885 9781477313893 1477313893

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