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Author: John Staller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-16
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1315427281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbridged and updated version of the basic work on the development of maize, including 20 chapters of interest to Mesoamerican specialists, updated with recent findings and interpretations.
Author: John Staller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 1129
ISBN-13: 1315427311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread throughout the Americas. The multidisciplinary evidence from the social and biological sciences presented in this volume have generated a much more complex picture of the economic, political, and religious significance of maize. The volume also includes ethnographic research on the uses and roles of maize in indigenous cultures and a linguistic section that includes chapters on indigenous folk taxonomies and the role and meaning of maize to the development of civilization. Histories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published to date. This book will appeal to a varied audience, and have no titles competiting with it because of its breadth and scope. The volume offers a single source of high quality summary information unavailable elsewhere.
Author: John E. Staller
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 720
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaize is usually described as the primary economic catalyst to complex socio cultural development in both Mesoamerica and Andean South America. In recent years, research on maize DNA has initiated information about ancient human diets, which have in turn provided new ways of considering the origins of agriculture and its spread. The origin of agriculture triggered a long train of economic, political, and technological developments. ""Histories of Maize"" provides a single source of information about the genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize. Not only will its co.
Author: John E. Staller
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Published: 2006
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaize is usually described as the primary economic catalyst to complex socio cultural development in both Mesoamerica and Andean South America. In recent years, research on maize DNA has initiated information about ancient human diets, which have in turn provided new ways of considering the origins of agriculture and its spread. The origin of agriculture triggered a long train of economic, political, and technological developments. "Histories of Maize" provides a single source of information about the genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize. Not only will its comprehensive approach make its audience varied, but the book will also have no titles competing with it. This book provides contexts that many researches lack because of their narrowly-defined research interests, and it offers a single source of high quality summary information that is unavailable elsewhere.
Author: John Staller
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2006-05-15
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 1598744623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published to date.
Author: Michael Blake
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-08-28
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0520286960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaize is the world’s most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How did we come to be so dependent on this one plant? Maize for the Gods brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specialists to explore the complex ways that this single plant and the peoples who domesticated it came to be inextricably entangled with one another over the past nine millennia. Tracing maize from its first appearance and domestication in ancient campsites and settlements in Mexico to its intercontinental journey through most of North and South America, this history also tells the story of the artistic creativity, technological prowess, and social, political, and economic resilience of America’s first peoples.
Author: John Staller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-12-02
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 3642045065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur perceptions and conceptions regarding the roles and importance of maize to ancient economies is largely a product of scientific research on the plant itself, developed for the most part out of botanical research, and its recent role as one of the most important economic staples in the world. Anthropological research in the early part of the last century based largely upon the historical particularistic approach of the Boasian tradition provided the first evidence that challenged the assumptions about the economic importance of maize to sociocultural developments for scholars of prehistory. Subsequent ethnobotanic and archaeological studies showed that the role of maize among Native American cultures was much more complex than just as a food staple. In Maize Cobs and Cultures, John Staller provides a survey of the ethnohistory and the scientific, botanical and biological research of maize, complemented by reviews on the ethnobotanic, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary methodologies.
Author: Roberto Cintli Rodríguez
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2014-11-06
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0816530610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeaving archival records, ancient maps and narratives, and the wisdom of the elders, Roberto Cintli Rodriguez offers compelling evidence that maíz is the historical connector between Indigenous peoples of this continent. Rodriguez brings together the wisdom of scholars and elders to show how maíz/corn connects the peoples of the Americas.
Author: John Staller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-11-24
Total Pages: 691
ISBN-13: 1441904719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe significance of food and feasting to Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures has been extensively studied by archaeologists, anthropologists and art historians. Foodways studies have been critical to our understanding of early agriculture, political economies, and the domestication and management of plants and animals. Scholars from diverse fields have explored the symbolic complexity of food and its preparation, as well as the social importance of feasting in contemporary and historical societies. This book unites these disciplinary perspectives — from the social and biological sciences to art history and epigraphy — creating a work comprehensive in scope, which reveals our increasing understanding of the various roles of foods and cuisines in Mesoamerican cultures. The volume is organized thematically into three sections. Part 1 gives an overview of food and feasting practices as well as ancient economies in Mesoamerica. Part 2 details ethnographic, epigraphic and isotopic evidence of these practices. Finally, Part 3 presents the metaphoric value of food in Mesoamerican symbolism, ritual, and mythology. The resulting volume provides a thorough, interdisciplinary resource for understanding, food, feasting, and cultural practices in Mesoamerica.
Author: Michael Owen Jones
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1780238169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginating in Mesoamerica 9,000 years ago, maize—or, as we know it, corn—now grows in 160 countries. In the New World, indigenous peoples referred to corn as “Our Mother,” “Our Life,” and “She Who Sustains Us.” Today, the United States is the world’s leading producer of corn, and you can find more than 3,500 items in grocery stores that contain corn in one way or another—from puddings to soups, margarine to mayonnaise. In Corn: A Global History, Michael Owen Jones explores the origins of this humble but irreplaceable crop. The book traces corn back to its Mesoamerican roots, following along as it was transported to the Old World by Christopher Columbus, and then subsequently distributed throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. Jones takes readers into the deliciously disparate culinary uses of corn, including the Chilean savory pie pastel de choclo, Japanese corn soup, Mexican tamales, a Filipino shaved ice snack, and the South African cracked hominy dish umngqusho, favored by Nelson Mandela. Covering corn’s controversies, celebrations, and iconic cultural status, Jones interweaves food, folklore, history, and popular culture to reveal the vibrant story of a world staple.
