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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 673–687.
Published: 01 October 2005
...Martha Few Chocolate, in the form of a hot chocolate beverage, was widely available to men and women of all ethnic and social groups in late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth-century Santiago de Guatemala, the capital city of colonial Central America. At the same time, chocolate acted as a central...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 April 2007
...Keith M. Prufer; W. Jeffrey Hurst Archaeological investigations at a mortuary cave in southern Belize recovered a bowl containing five cacao (chocolate) seeds dating to the fourth or fifth century AD. The context of both the burial and the cacao informs our understanding of the role of chocolate...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 153–154.
Published: 01 January 2021
... paperback.) Copyright 2021 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2021 This edited volume breaks new ground in critical food studies by exploring the allure that Africans, Indians, and Europeans held for ingested commodities such as alcohol, chocolate, peyote, sugar, and tobacco in Mesoamerica...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 721–744.
Published: 01 October 2019
... constructed over the offering table during some rituals in Yucatàn today. Being near the fire is a means of helping reinforce the health of the woman who has given birth by “heating” her, as discussed above. Likewise, the woman is given “hot” drinks to reinforce her health, in this case “boiled chocolate...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (1): 217–218.
Published: 01 January 2019
... textual sources over images. For instance, written accounts by Sahagún in the Florentine Codex are the only primary material used to contextualize the images at Malinalco, which include cacao pods. There is a missed opportunity to connect this either to the preceding discussion of preconquest chocolate...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (3): 412–413.
Published: 01 July 2024
... is arguably the most large-scale outgrowth of transatlantic encounter, here, too, Pennock sees Indigenous people at work. She suggests that they introduced things like chocolate and tobacco to Europe through an Indigenous logic of exchange based more on reciprocity and connection-building than the pursuit...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 393–394.
Published: 01 April 2015
... with the Vikings and continuing through the early Spanish explorers. More importantly, almost half of the world’s table vegetables originated with native peoples of the Americas, as did domes- ticated turkeys, tobacco, and chocolate. Technological innovation, too, moved west to east. From native peoples...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 469–495.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Edition . Austin : University of Texas Press . McNeil Cameron , ed. 2007 Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao . Gainesville : University Press of Florida . Norton Marcy 2008 Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 477–491.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of San Pedro and San Pablo be allocated to San Gregorio. He wanted half of the traditional 5 percent of that amount or principal—that is, 120 pesos—to pay a teacher for students of San Gregorio, and the other 120 pesos to help defray the costs of wine, candles, and chocolate. 12 Thirty years later...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 January 2004
... being frequently very similar, on the whole they seem inextricably entwined into a shared symbolic complex, with such local touches as the use of opaque and gritty chocolate beverages to mask the presence of magical powders. Although investigators carefully docu- mented the ethnic or casta status...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 389–414.
Published: 01 July 2010
... since the 1980s have followed Sidney W. Mintz’s commodity chain model, tracing food items such as salt, spices, chocolate, and coffee in the world system and the development of “modern” taste. Fewer studies have examined taste experience and social eating practices within specific colo- nial...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (4): 689–719.
Published: 01 October 2019
...). Following birth, the midwife continues to play a crucial role, by binding the child with its father’s belt to keep it safe and warm, and giving the mother a steam bath or a chocolate drink to replenish the heat loss caused by birth (179, 184n17). 4 After the child is delivered, the midwife brings its...
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Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (1): 187–194.
Published: 01 January 2007
... people. That Juan was reported as carrying out activities usually associated with women (preparing chocolate or doing the shopping) did not help his position. As Lewis reminds us, same-sex relationships may at times open an additional dimension, that of cross-dressing, and discrepancies between...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 July 2003
...’’ (in the state seal at center) in a context celebrating the English conquest of North America was apparently lost. An advertising postcard for Headley’s Chocolates the only kind sold at the Jamestown Expositionthe cur- sive text...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 77–101.
Published: 01 January 2021
... and the word quilnamacaque , “vegetable vendor,” is set adjacent to a stall with two cups, showing the frothing technique for the cacao drinks, labeled hatlaq∼tzali ( ātlaquetzalli ), for the “foamy chocolate” sold there. Above are the meat and fish merchants ( michnamacaque ), and the smell of their wares...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (4): 493–509.
Published: 01 October 2022
... (an Indigenous beverage made from corn, similar to gruel) ( El Mosquito Mexicano 1834b ). Throughout the time the school remained under his supervision, he enabled the administration to serve students drinking chocolate, instead of atole, as well as other foods; and to provide them every week with clean...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (2): 291–310.
Published: 01 April 2021
... reales for prognostications. He only did them on Fridays and likely had the support of his enslaver, Jacinto da Silva, who would have profited from these readings. When pressed, Antón claimed he only wanted the money for chocolate, tobacco, and pulque. Before the inquisition, he cleverly called...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (3): 407–428.
Published: 01 July 2020
... the precious feathers; and multicolored chocolate and multicolored cotton” (1:73–81). When the Mexica finally reached their destination, they saw an eagle perched on a cactus, its nest lined with precious feathers and dead birds scattered on the ground below, an event described in Chimalpahin...
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Ethnohistory (2020) 67 (1): 149–173.
Published: 01 January 2020
... affirm the extravagant opulence of the eighteenth-century chapels and the administrator’s material wealth, exemplified by personal possessions such as silver-footed goblets for drinking chocolate and furnishings made of exotic woods (Weaver 2015 : 377). The notion that the Jesuits lived in convents...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (3): 287–311.
Published: 01 July 2022
... . Norton Marcy . 2008 . Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Norton Marcy . 2019 . “ The Quetzal Takes Flight: Microhistory, Mesoamerican Knowledge, and Early Modern Natural History...
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