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Sacred Consumption - Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture (Hardcover)
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Sacred Consumption - Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture (Hardcover)
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Making a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this
book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as
indigenous and colonial Spanish texts, to offer the first
integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art. Aztec painted
manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish
sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs and
food processing and consumption. Both gods and humans were depicted
feasting, and food and eating clearly played a pervasive, integral
role in Aztec rituals. Basic foods were transformed into sacred
elements within particular rituals, while food in turn gave meaning
to the ritual performance. This pioneering book offers the first
integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art. Elizabeth Moran
asserts that while feasting and consumption are often seen as a
secondary aspect of ritual performance, a close examination of
images of food rites in Aztec ceremonies demonstrates that the
presence-or, in some cases, the absence-of food in the rituals gave
them significance. She traces the ritual use of food from the
beginning of Aztec mythic history through contact with Europeans,
demonstrating how food and ritual activity, the everyday and the
sacred, blended in ceremonies that ranged from observances of
births, marriages, and deaths to sacrificial offerings of human
hearts and blood to feed the gods and maintain the cosmic order.
Moran also briefly considers continuities in the use of
pre-Hispanic foods in the daily life and ritual practices of
contemporary Mexico. Bringing together two domains that have
previously been studied in isolation, Sacred Consumption promises
to be a foundational work in Mesoamerican studies.
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