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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung History |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Justin Jennings; Brenda J Bowser |
ISBN: | 9780813033068 0813033063 |
OCLC Number: | 226356629 |
Description: | x, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | "Let's drink together, my dear!" : persistent ceremonies in a changing community / Catherine J. Allen -- Working through daughters : strategies for gaining and maintaining social power among the chicheras of highland Bolivia / Diane C. Perlov -- Places to partake : chicha in the Andean landscape / Melissa Goodman-Elgar -- The role of chicha in Inca state expansion : a distributional study of Inca aríbalos / Tamara L. Bray -- You are what you drink : a sociocultural reconstruction of pre-Hispanic fermented beverage use at Cerro Baúl, Moquegua, Peru / David J. Goldstein, Robin C. Coleman Goldstein, and Patrick R. Williams -- Timanaku influence on local drinking patterns in Cochabamba, Bolivia / Karen Anderson -- Pots, brewers, and hosts : women's power and the limits of central Andean feasting / Justin Jennings and Melissa Chatfield -- Chicha histories : pre-Hispanic brewing in the Andes and the use of ethnographic and historical analogues / Frances Hayashida -- Have a drink : chicha, performance, and politics / Mary Weismantel. |
Responsibility: | edited by Justin Jennings and Brenda J. Bowser. |
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Abstract:
Offers a look at the history, ethnography, and archaeology of one of the most important traditional indigenous commodities in Andean South America - fermented plant beverages collectively known as chicha. This collection investigate how these forms of alcohol have played a huge role in maintaining gender roles, kinship bonds and ethnic identities.
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"A timely addition to a corpus of works that relates to feasting. Whether you are an archaeologist, ethnohistorian, or ethnographer, Jennings and Bowser's compelling volume speaks to a rich and detailed understanding of the many changing roles and traditions that drinking plays in the Andes." - George Gumerman IV, Northern Arizona University "Chicha is not just a South American beverage, but, as the authors of this superb volume demonstrate, a set of cultural creations that flows among the lives of Andean peoples, past and present." - Jerry D. Moore, California State University, Dominguez Hills" Read more...
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Related Subjects:(17)
- Indians of South America -- Alcohol use -- Andes Region.
- Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Social life and customs.
- Chicha -- Andes Region -- History.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Andes Region -- History.
- Drinking customs -- Andes Region -- History.
- Andes Region -- Social life and customs.
- Chicha.
- Drinking customs.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- Indians of South America -- Alcohol use.
- Indians of South America -- Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Andes Region.
- Alkoholisches Getränk.
- Indianer.
- Trinkverhalten.
- Anden.
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