Alcohol in Latin America : a social and cultural history / edited by Gretchen Pierce and Áurea Toxqui.
"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, archaeolog...
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Table of 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.
- 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.