Description |
1 online resource (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction ; Part 1. The Prehispanic and Colonial Periods; 1. A Glass for the Gods and a Gift to My Neighbor: The Importance of Alcohol in the Pre-Columbian Andes; 2. Liquid Fire: Alcohol, Identity, and Social Hierarchy in Colonial Brazil; 3. Drunkenness and Interpersonal Violence in Colonial Michoacán; Part 2. The Long Nineteenth Century (1820s to 1930) ; 4. Wine Country: The Vineyard as National Space in Nineteenth-Century Argentina; 5. Breadwinners or Entrepreneurs?: Women's Involvement in the Pulquería World of Mexico City, 1850-1910 |
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6. Drunks and Dictators: Inebriation's Gendered, Ethnic, and Class Components in Guatemala, 1898-1944Part 3. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries; 7. Pulqueros, Cerveceros, and Mezcaleros: Small Alcohol Producers and Popular Resistance to Mexico's Anti-Alcohol Campaigns, 1910-1940; 8. Tequila Sauza and the Redemption of Mexico's Vital Fluids, 1873-1970; 9. Essence and Identity: Transformations in Argentine Wine, 1880-2010; 10. Of Chicha, Majas, and Mingas: Hard Apple Cider and Local Solidarity in Twenty-First-Century Rural Southern Chile; Glossary; Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
Summary |
"Alcohol in Latin America is the first interdisciplinary study to examine the historic role of alcohol across Latin America and over a broad time span. Six locations--the Andean region, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico--are seen through the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, art history, ethnohistory, history, and literature"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Alcoholic beverage industry -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History
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Alcoholism -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History
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Alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Latin America -- History
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Temperance -- Latin America -- History
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HISTORY -- General.
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Alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects
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Alcoholism -- Social aspects
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages
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Temperance
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Latin America
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Pierce, Gretchen, 1978-
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Toxqui, Áurea, 1970-
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LC no. |
2013034784 |
ISBN |
9780816599004 |
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0816599009 |
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1306540127 |
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9781306540124 |
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0816530769 |
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9780816530762 |
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