...Jennifer Siegler Sacred Consumption: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture . By Elizabeth Morán . ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . vii+142 pp., acknowledgments, preface, introduction, epilogue, appendix, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.) Copyright 2019...

... of Cancún embeds rules of production and consumption radically different from those encapsulated in the milpa or cornfield ideology that Maya experience in their communities. The study presents a dialogue between Chan Kom's social fragmentation due to out-migration to Cancún and the Mayanization...

... of the Indianized other as mascot becomes the contested site for these cultural appropriations. The manipulated body of the Indian mascot is presented for the public gaze in stark contrast to the reality of Native American lives and realities. The consumptive aspects of these public displays reinforce stereotypes...

..., and consumption) reveal and enact social relationships and inequalities. The author reminds readers that to fully explore the rich implications of the graphic, scholars must expand their investigations beyond writing's capacity to represent spoken language and also investigate the iconic and indexical dimensions...

... in the Guaraní missions. A critical reading of Jesuit documents and analysis of mission production and consumption levels reveal that the Jesuits failed to fully institute the rigorous schedule associated with settled agriculture and domesticated livestock, and thus the economic aspect of their civilizing agenda...

.... The ability of these commodities to seduce peoples across racial and socioeconomic lines grants them a level of agency in their own right. Using consumption as an analytical tool helps the volume’s contributors illuminate the social meaning embedded within sensorial experiences. The book’s six chapters...

... in terms of their production, circulation, and consumption.3 This helps explain why particular images eventually predominate, despite the state agendas, the tourism industry initiatives or Mayas’ own intentions. Representations of Mayas in the Summer Fair and elsewhere during the 1930s...

... In the process, the association between chocolate and female sorcerers was, at times, extended to frame colonial discourses regarding women’s disorderly behavior in general, especially women’s consumption of chocolate in public settings. The transformation of the meanings and representations of choco- late...

... of the spiritual journal and the spe- cific example of Sor María. These writings were mediated, in that they were prepared by the nun for consumption by her confessor. In Sor María’s case, there were several spiritual advisers for whom she...

... of the raid as a means to acquire women and children for the Mianmin; the killing and consumption of the slain expressed the finality of their separation from home to the captives as well as ‘‘densely textured affective...

... disregard of nationalism. In addition, 182 Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney unlike Immanuel Wallerstein, for whom the ceaseless accumulation of capi- tal was the only logic of his world system, Marx (1989 [1852]: 12) in fact foresaw the importance of consumption in his...

..., and material culture studies to interpret data from arti- facts and archives about Ioway-­European interactions related to the pro- duction, consumption, and exchange of trade goods. We suggest that both middle- and native-­ground metaphors reproduce the narratives they were intended to challenge...

... stood to gain by enforcing market regulations. And finally, she examines the consumption of goods, carefully disentangling items that were gifts from those that were commodities; she shows how both Indians and Europeans imbued goods that served as gifts with different meanings and expectations than...

... determined consumption. To understand power in early America, LaCombe, who argues that in the Atlantic and Algonquian worlds “authority was rooted in a leader’s control of the food supply” (66), analyzes how settlers and Native Americans shared, withheld, presented, and wrote about food. Using...

... Matthew , Varney Tamara , Surette Clarence , and Surette Jennifer 2008 “ Reassessing the Northern Limit of Maize Consumption in North America: Stable Isotope, Plant Microfossil, and Trace Element Content of Carbonized Food Residue .” Journal of Archaeological Science 35 , no. 9...

... Country of the power consumption that has fueled suburbanization. The Indian-focused topical pieces in part 1 include three describing historical processes and four describing events. The process articles call for greater recognition of Indian history in the North Atlantic trade conducted...

..., and Oxchuc, it ranked with diarrhea, enteritis, and malaria as a principal cause of death.42 The INI’s position on indigenous alcohol consumption was a practical one informed by anthropological observation. Its promoters and puppet shows preached temperance and encouraged participation in sports...

... enjoy pristine health. Reviews of medici- nal plants used by the Five Tribes, however, reveal that natives were felled by a variety of diseases, parasites, and wounds. Consumption of alcohol, acquired through the fur trade, also began to take a toll in the seventeenth century.4 Romans noticed...

... to the development and international consumption of several Latin American musical genres, including tango, música folklórica , and nueva canción . Chapter 3—the most ethnographically rich and compelling section of the book—details the experiences of Bolivian musicians who tour in Japan. Chapter 4 discusses...

... state sponsorship and thus from INI (see chap. 3), they gained greater control over the choice of subject matter, production, and “cultural visibility” (see chap. 4). This was not without its dilemmas. What constituted appropriately “indigenous” material, suitable for public consumption, Cusi...