K'Oben - 3,000 Years of the Maya Hearth (Hardcover)

K'Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeological evidence through today's culinary tourism in the area. It focuses not only on what was eaten and how it was cooked, but the people involved: who grew or sourced the foods, who cooked them, who ate them. Additionally, the authors examine how Maya foodways and the people involved fit into the social system, particularly in how food is incorporated into culture, economy, and society. The authors provide a detailed literature review of hard-to-find sources including: out of print centuries old cookbooks, archaeological field notes, ethnographies and ethnohistories out of circulation and not available in English, thesis documents only available in Spanish and in university archives as well as current field research on the Maya. The more recent Maya foodways can be studied from cookbooks, ethnographies and ethnohistorical documentation. Between the two of us, we have assembled a small but representative collection of cookbooks, some self-published and rare, that were available in Merida and elsewhere in Mexico during the late 20th century. Some are quite old, and all reflect local traditional foodways. Geographically, the book concentrates on Yucatan, Tabasco and Chiapas in Mexico, but will include Pre-Classic and Classic evidence from Guatemala and El Salvador, whose foodways are influenced by Maya traditions.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
Release date:	December 2016
Authors:	Amber M. O'Connor • Eugene N Anderson
Dimensions:	237 x 159 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-1-4422-5525-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Prehistoric archaeology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4422-5525-0
Barcode:	9781442255258

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